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For more than two decades, Brown, Goldstein & Levy has been recognized as Maryland's leading private law firm for handling high impact, public interest cases. Our attorneys have handled these challenges in the Supreme Court and most of the federal appellate circuits, as well as in state courts around the country.
Our cases have run the gamut from challenging America Online's failure to provide Internet access to blind users, to obtaining opportunities for minority voters to participate fully in local governmental affairs, to enforcing the rights of African Americans, people with disabilities, and others to live in the communities of their choice.
Suing under the Commerce Clause, Brown, Goldstein & Levy overturned a state tax on interstate truckers. Suing under the Free Speech Clause, we affirmed the rights of those with unusual views to communicate their messages. Suing under the right to privacy, we struck down antiquated laws that intruded on the private lives of gay men.
For this work, the firm has been honored by the Maryland Legal Services Corp., Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Maryland Bar Foundation, University of Maryland School of Law Alumni Association, American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, League for People with Disabilities, and Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning.
Representative cases include:
Cane v. Worcester County, 59 F.3d 165 (4th Cir. 1995) (unlawful county voting structure);
Mack v. Mack, 329 Md. 188, 618 A.2d 744 (1993) (comatose patient's right to die);
Diggs v. Housing Authority of the City of Frederick, 67 F. Supp. 2d 522 (D. Md. 1999) (invalidity of trespass laws restricting the rights of public housing tenants and guests);
Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc. v. LOB, Inc., 92 F. Supp. 2d 45 (D. Md. 2000) (disability access to newly-built condos and apartments);
Potomac Group Home Corp. v. Montgomery Co., 823 F. Supp. 1285 (D. Md. 1993) (invalidity of licensing law to prevent group homes);
Iskon, Inc. v. Schmidt, 523 F. Supp. 1303 (D. Md 1981) (infringement on free speech);
Danna v. State, 91 Md. App. 443, 605 A.2d 150 (1992) (new trial for woman convicted of murdering abusive husband);
Williams v. Glendening, 1998 Extra LEXIS 260 (Balt. City Cir. Ct 1998) (legalizing private, consensual homosexual activity).
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