Maryland Court of Appeals Consumer Protection; Maryland Consumer Loan Law: Although a law firm engaged in debt collection activities on behalf of a client, including the preparation of a promissory note containing a confessed judgment clause and filing of a confessed judgment complaint to collect a consumer debt, it was not subject to the provisions .
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Details of prior sexual-assault conviction are admissible if sufficiently similar to the crime for which defendant stands accused, Maryland appeals court says.
Contractual arbitration clauses are not subject to the three-year statutory time limit for filing claims that applies to lawsuits, Maryland’s top court says.
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 .