U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Civil Practice; Good cause for untimely service: A court may excuse a plaintiff’s failure to serve defendants within the 90-day period required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(m) even where the plaintiff has not shown “good cause” for the delay. Gelin v. Shuman, No. 21-1498 (filed May .
Maryland’s Court of Appeals this week disbarred a Westminster attorney who “violated one of the most sacred obligations” of the legal profession by borrowing money from his attorney trust account without permission from a client. The court found that Clifford B. Silbiger’s lengthy and otherwise untarnished career as a lawyer was not enough to prevent .
Maryland’s top court disbars attorney for cheating not his clients but the law firm he co-founded out of nearly $15,000 by padding his expense reports.
Maryland Court of Appeals Attorneys; indefinite suspension: Where an attorney represented to bar counsel that there were no disciplinary complaints pending against her, despite prior correspondence from bar counsel about a disciplinary complaint, she violated multiple sections of the Maryland Attorneys’ Rules of Professional Conduct, or MARPC, resulting in her being indefinitely suspended from the .
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Criminal; Exigent Circumstances: Where the defendant’s former girlfriend told police he had broken into her home, was armed and had threatened to kill her, her family or law enforcement; the police found her credible and the defendant had a violent criminal history, exigent circumstances supported a warrantless .