The National Fair Housing Alliance, 19 fair housing organizations, and two homeowners charge Bank of America and Safeguard Properties Management with violating the Federal Fair Housing Act.
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Civil Rights Organizations Accuse Bank of America of Housing Discrimination in 37 Metropolitan Areas
BGL hosted a lunch for public interest summer interns from ACLU of Maryland, Disability Rights Maryland, Maryland Legal Aid, NAACP, and the Public Justice Center.
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Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum, Brown, Goldstein & Levy’s managing partner, was one of 28 selected for the MBF Fellows Class of 2018.
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Andy Levy – Searching Our cells and Sites and Admissibility of Social Media and Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum – Life of a Managing Partner
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BECU will work in collaboration with NFB and its members to make its website and mobile banking app fully accessible to blind customers.
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Recent changes to the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) Case Processing Manual call for dismissal of discrimination complaints if the victim has complained about discrimination in the past. The changes were made without public notice, contradict the Department’s own regulations, and arbitrarily abandon the basic duty of OCR to investigate legitimate complaints of discrimination.
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The Baltimore City Board of Estimates approved a settlement in which Baltimore will pay $9 million to James Owens, a man wrongfully convicted of the 1987 murder of a young woman in Southeast Baltimore.
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In a medical malpractice case, a patient’s action or inaction before treatment is irrelevant to whether the doctor deviated from the standard of care and caused injury, the Court of Special Appeals held.
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The parents of a man with Down syndrome killed when Frederick County sheriff’s deputies dragged him from his seat in a movie theater have settled their lawsuit for $1.9 million.
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Dr. Jan Bartleson, a counselor and emotional/behavioral disabilities clinician with M-DCPS for twenty-six years, has been unable to perform critical parts of her job independently because her employer requires that she utilize software, web content, and web platforms that are not compatible with screen reading technology.
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