In the United States,a state supreme court is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters of state law,the judgment of a state supreme court is considered final and binding in both state and federal courts.
Personality rights,sometimes referred to as the right of publicity,are rights for an individual to control the commercial use of their identity,such as name,image,likeness,or other unequivocal identifiers. They are generally considered as property rights,rather than personal rights,and so the validity of personality rights of publicity may survive the death of the individual to varying degrees,depending on the jurisdiction.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 was a United States federal statute enacted on September 24,1789,during the first session of the First United States Congress. It established the federal judiciary of the United States. Article III,Section 1 of the Constitution prescribed that the "judicial power of the United States,shall be vested in one Supreme Court,and such inferior Courts" as Congress saw fit to establish. It made no provision for the composition or procedures of any of the courts,leaving this to Congress to decide.
Benjamin Richard Civiletti was an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney General during the Carter administration,from 1979 to 1981. The first Italian American to lead the U.S. Department of Justice,he previously served as the Deputy Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. Later he was a senior partner in the Baltimore-based law firm of Venable LLP. He specialized in commercial litigation and internal investigations working at Venable LLP.
Medical malpractice is professional negligence by act or omission by a health care provider in which the treatment provided falls below the accepted standard of practice in the medical community and causes injury or death to the patient,with most cases involving medical error. Claims of medical malpractice,when pursued in US courts,are processed as civil torts. Sometimes an act of medical malpractice will also constitute a criminal act,as in the case of the death of Michael Jackson.
The Supreme Court of Maryland is the highest court of the U.S. state of Maryland. The court,which is composed of one chief justice and six associate justices,meets in the Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal Building in the state capital,Annapolis. The term of the Court begins the second Monday of September. The Court is unique among American courts in that the justices wear red robes.
Trespass to chattels is a tort whereby the infringing party has intentionally interfered with another person's lawful possession of a chattel. The interference can be any physical contact with the chattel in a quantifiable way,or any dispossession of the chattel. As opposed to the greater wrong of conversion,trespass to chattels is argued to be actionable per se.
The government of Maryland is conducted according to the Maryland Constitution. The United States is a federation;consequently,the government of Maryland,like the other 49 state governments,has exclusive authority over matters that lie entirely within the state's borders,except as limited by the Constitution of the United States.
In United States federal law,the Daubert standard is a rule of evidence regarding the admissibility of expert witness testimony. A party may raise a Daubert motion,a special motion in limine raised before or during trial,to exclude the presentation of unqualified evidence to the jury. The Daubert trilogy are the three United States Supreme Court cases that articulated the Daubert standard:
Robert David Sack is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Maryland since January 1,2013. In 2012,the state's Democratic representatives,led by Governor Martin O'Malley,began a campaign for its legalization. After much debate,a law permitting same-sex marriage was passed by the General Assembly in February 2012 and signed on March 1,2012. The law took effect on January 1,2013 after 52.4% of voters approved a statewide referendum held on November 6,2012. The vote was hailed as a watershed moment by gay rights activists and marked the first time marriage rights in the United States had been extended to same-sex couples by popular vote.
Hudson v. Craft is a United States court case defining how the court defines consent as a defense to an intentional harm.
Equality Maryland (EQMD) is a non-profit organization formerly headquartered in Silver Spring,Maryland,now based in Baltimore. It is the largest organization in Maryland whose activities focus on advocacy and education with regard to LGBT social and political movements. Its mission includes:the passage of laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation,gender expression,and gender identity;the expansion of Maryland's hate-crimes statute;the increase of domestic partner benefits;the legal recognition of same-sex marriage in Maryland and laws banning the practice of conversion therapy on minors.
Negligent entrustment is a cause of action in United States tort law which arises where one party is held liable for negligence because they negligently provided another party with a dangerous instrumentality,and the entrusted party caused injury to a third party with that instrumentality. The cause of action most frequently arises where one person allows another to drive their automobile.
J. Frederick Motz was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He served as judge on that court from 1985 to his death. His previous experience included a range of positions as an Assistant United States Attorney and United States Attorney,and more than a decade in private practice. He was also chairman of the board of Trustees for Sheppard Pratt Health System.
Ellen Frances Lipton Hollander is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
James Kelleher Bredar is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Bruce Beemer is an American attorney and jurist serving as a judge on the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. He served as the 49th Pennsylvania Attorney General from 2016 to 2017 and as Inspector General of Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2019. He was nominated to the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas by Governor Tom Wolf and unanimously confirmed by the Pennsylvania State Senate in November 2019. He was sworn in on January 3,2020.
Brynja McDivitt Booth is an American lawyer who has served a justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland since 2019.
