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Court rules for Maryland prison official on procedural issue

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Share The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a Maryland prison official another chance to defend himself against a federal civil rights claim. Younger rested on procedural issues, but it was an important one for the litigants involved – and, as Justice Amy Coney Barrett observed in announcing it, for law professors.

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Justices to hear procedural question in Maryland prison-assault case

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Share Kevin Younger was detained before trial at a state prison in Baltimore, Maryland. In the district court, Dupree argued that Younger’s suit could not go forward because he had not pursued all remedies, including internal grievance remedies at the prison, as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Maryland Consulting Firm Sued for Sexual Harassment by the EEOC

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The company went out of its way to make sure that this woman did not receive any unemployment benefits by opposing her applications.

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Common Types of Maryland Workers’ Compensation Claims

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You must report the workplace injury within ten days of the accident or within one year of being diagnosed with a job-related illness.

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Justices dismiss “civil rights tester” case

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In an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court acknowledged concerns by the hotel, which lost in the lower court and had asked the justices to weigh in, “about litigants manipulating the jurisdiction of this Court.”

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Suing for Disfigurement After a Maryland Accident

LegalReader

Perhaps the most notable example would be a facial scar, burn, or blemish. However, scars on the body may also constitute disfigurement.