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The COVID-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police, and the subsequent protests have brought racial inequalities to the forefront of public square discussion.  As faculty of color in the fields of criminal justice and legal studies, we cover diversity issues in all of our classes, especially with students who will be [...]

The image of Derek Chauvin’s knee on George Floyd’s neck as the dying man cried, “I can’t breathe,” is now etched in the consciousness of an entire generation. The repugnant violence committed by Chauvin and the other complicit officers – and by too many police before them – breeds severe community distrust of law enforcement [...]

The Consumer Protection Division (CPD) of the Maryland Attorney General’s office filed suit on Wednesday against Westminster Management, LLC, a company owned by Kushner Companies for violating the Maryland Consumer Protection Act and the Maryland Consumer Debt Collection Act. The suit seeks to enjoin the illegal renting practices of Westminster and its property owners, who [...]

The US Supreme Court declined to grant a stay to BP Plc and several other oil and gas companies Tuesday in a Baltimore lawsuit against the companies, solidifying a remand order issued by the US District Court for the District of Maryland. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore sued in state court last year [...]

Last month, tenants at a rent-stabilized apartment building called Atlantic Plaza Towers in Brooklyn filed a formal protest against their landlord’s plan to replace key fobs with facial recognition technology. The landlord claimed the new system would enhance security. The tenants, primarily women of color, countered that access to their homes should not hinge on [...]

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced on Tuesday that Baltimore will no longer be prosecuting marijuana possession, regardless of weight or criminal history. The decision to end prosecution was based on a “lack of a demonstrable public safety benefit, the resource drain that resolving marijuana possession cases places on prosecutors, and the racially unjust manner [...]

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Tuesday in the appeal of five Baltimore city police officers who sued Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby alleging she had illegally and maliciously prosecuted them following the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. In January 2017 US District Judge Marvin Garbis ruled that charges, including malicious prosecution, defamation and invasion [...]

A Baltimore federal judge on Tuesday declined the Trump administration’s request to shield information it employed when deciding to ban transgender people from the US military. The lawsuit , filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , is on behalf of more than one dozen transgender people serving or who want to serve in the military. [...]

Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and Columbus argued in a lawsuit filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland that President Donald Trump’s plan to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a violation of the US Constitution. Congressional Republicans attempted and failed to repeal the ACA several times last year. Shortly after, [...]

Our phones are constantly searching for the greatest connection, updating our location, and often connect to multiple cell towers on any given day, divulging our whereabouts to service providers with relative ease. In recent years, the accuracy of this method to pinpoint a person’s current and past location has increased significantly. And given that there [...]