U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Arbitration; illusory promise: Where the employer retained the right to “change, abolish or modify existing policies, procedures or benefits applicable to employees as it may deem necessary with or without notice,” its motion to compel arbitration of wage and hour claims brought by former employees was denied .
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 Consumer Protection; RESPA: Where a borrower’s letter to his loan servicer included the name, account number and other information that would enable the servicer to identify the account, and it explained why the borrower believed the account was in error, it constituted a qualified written request, or .
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Consumer Protection; Absent class member: Where 28 U.S.C. § 636(c) provides a magistrate judge with jurisdiction to approve a class action and enter judgment only by consent of the parties, the Fourth Circuit joined every other circuit to consider the issue in holding that absent class members .
Maryland Court of Special Appeals Administrative: Where a state statue and the Prince George’s County code both provide an exemption from recordation and transfer taxes for transfers to “the State[,] an agency of the State[,] or a political subdivision in the State,” the “State” was the State of Maryland. As such, a pension fund for .