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Kathleen and Clark Mcllvain, whose son Charlie died in the dive boat fire, break down while talking to the media in front of the U.S. Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles on May 2, 2024. A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the scuba dive boat captain, Jerry Boylan, to four years in prison and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
May 3, 2024

Captain sentenced to prison for criminal negligence in fiery deaths of 34 aboard scuba boat

A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to prison after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel.

Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington on Oct. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
May 3, 2024

Google, Justice Department make final arguments on whether search engine is a monopoly

Google's preeminence as an internet search engine is an illegal monopoly, the Justice Department argued at the closings of a high-stakes antitrust lawsuit.

May 3, 2024

Hope Hicks, ex-Trump adviser, recounts political firestorm in 2016 over ‘Access Hollywood’ tape

Hope Hicks, a former adviser to Donald Trump, took the stand at the former president's hush money trial.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is among the state attorneys general suing Meta Platforms Inc., claiming social media sites like Facebook and Instagram harm young people's mental health and contribute to the youth mental health crisis. (Rachel Konieczny/The Daily Record)
May 3, 2024

Can MD, states win in lawsuits against Meta? Experts say it depends.

Even if Maryland and other states' lawsuits against Meta fail, they could force a change in how the social media giant does business, experts say.

Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump breach the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
May 3, 2024

Ex-government employee charged with falsely accusing co-workers of joining Capitol riot

A former government employee has been charged with submitting fake tips to the FBI reporting that his co-workers were part of a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol.

Former Howard County Police Accountability Board member Jim Gormley, right, and police accountability advocate Ted Stewart speak with reporters outside the Howard County administration building on Dec. 12, 2023. (Paul Kiefer/Capital News Service)
May 3, 2024

Legal gray areas frustrate implementation of MD police accountability law

Three years after state lawmakers celebrated the passage of the Maryland Police Accountability Act, rollout has proven slow and inconsistent.

May 2, 2024

Law clerk testifies that embattled Prince George’s judge thought she was being set up

A former law clerk for Prince George’s County Circuit Judge April T. Ademiluyi testified Thursday in the judge's hearing before a judicial oversight panel.

The Rev. Raymond Johnson, of Marion, South Carolina, arranges flowers on April 30, 2024, on the lawn of the home on Galway Drive in Charlotte, North Carolina, where a shootout between a suspect and officers occurred during an attempt to serve a warrant on Monday. Four law enforcement officers were killed. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)
May 2, 2024

Killing of 4 officers underscores risks police face when serving warrants

Arrest warrants must be served to alleged criminals if society is going to function. But there is no guarantee of safety for police officers knocking on their doors.

Andy Jassy, Amazon president and CEO, attends the premiere of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" at The Culver Studios in Culver City, California, on Aug. 15, 2022. An administrative law judge ruled May 1, 2024, that Jassy violated labor law by making certain anti-union comments during media interviews two years ago. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
May 2, 2024

Amazon CEO’s comments about unions violated federal law, NLRB judge rules

A federal judge ruled that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated labor law by making certain anti-union comments during media interviews.

Former President Donald Trump speaks with the media at the end of the day's proceedings in his trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York on April 26, 2024. (Curtis Means/DailyMail.com via AP)
May 2, 2024

‘What have we done?’: Lawyer describes shock at possible role in Trump’s 2016 victory

Prosecutors in Donald Trump's hush money trial sought additional sanctions over his out-of-court comments.

Kelsey Juliana, of Eugene, Oregon, a lead plaintiff who is part of a lawsuit by a group of young people who say U.S. energy policies are causing climate change and hurting their future, greets supporters outside a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, on June 4, 2019. A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on May 1, 2024, rejected the long-running lawsuit. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File)
May 2, 2024

Appeals court rejects climate change lawsuit by young Oregon activists

An appeals court rejected a lawsuit from climate activists who argued that the U.S. government's role in climate change violated their constitutional rights.

The Maryland Supreme Court (formerly the Court of Appeals) building in Annapolis. MF-D 9/20/04.
May 2, 2024

Law Digest — Md. Supreme Court, Appellate Court — May 2, 2024

Maryland Supreme Court Civil practice; statutory amendment: Where Maryland General Assembly amended the statute to change the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts, that amendment applied to a petition that was pending as of the amendments’ effective date. In Re: M. P., No. 3, Sept. Term, 2023 (filed Apr. 23, 2024). Maryland Appellate Court Civil practice; […]

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