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Why you Should or Should Not be a Cosigner
It’s that time of year when college kids are heading back to school. Many of them are moving into a new apartment. Obtaining a lease for an apartment or a car, or purchasing a vehicle entails a significant financial commitment. Many times the borrower or potential tenant has little or no credit history. In these cases, the lender or landlord will often require a parent or other person to cosign the note or lease as a condition of acceptance.
Why a Bomb or Shooting Threat is not Protected Speech
While the First Amendment protects many kinds of speech, it does not give people a blanket right to say whatever they want wherever they want. Some types of speech are regulated for commercial purposes under copyright laws.
St. Mary’s: Land of the Fiddle and the Flask
Despite the enactment of Prohibition laws, whiskey stills abounded in St. Mary’s County during the 1920s and 1930s. Aleck Loker, prominent local historian, wrote “….when the nation went dry, St. Mary’s County rediscovered the value of home-brewed liquor…. Bootlegging offered a large return on investment – about $24.00 for each $4.00 sack of sugar.”
National Defense Magazine, “Contractors Vulnerable to Growing Number of ‘False Claims’ Suits”
Gene Townsend, financial consultant for the Baldwin & Briscoe, P.C. business group, points local contractors’ attention to an important new court ruling, with an excellent report of the ruling by the National Defense Industrial Association’s magazine, National Defense.
Sudden Loss of Consciousness Results in Finding of No Liability
Imagine this…you are sitting in traffic at a stop light in line with several other cars when a car comes along at full speed and plows into the back of the line causing a chain-reaction collision. You should be able to recover compensation for your injuries because the operator of the last car is obviously negligent, right? Well, yesterday, the Maryland Court of Appeals held otherwise.
Maryland Court of Special Appeals Rules on Drexler v. Bornman
In the case of Drexler v. Bornman, an issue arose before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals concerning the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act i.e. the “Act”. The Act states that a court in a child’s home state (which is determined by where the child lived with the parent for at least six consecutive months, with temporary absences allowed) “has exclusive jurisdiction to make an initial child custody determination.” This means that only the child’s home state courts can determine who gets child custody.
Supreme Court Preserves Cell Phone Privacy
Let’s face it: the cellphone has become the every man’s digital assistant. We use it to manager our calendars, store information on our personal and business contacts, do our basic banking, check our email, access our social media, navigate unfamiliar areas and hundreds of other tasks in our daily lives. As a result of modern technology and our everyday behaviors, our devices that we carry in our pockets and purses contain an enormous amount of personal data about you. Even your mere location is traceable whenever you make a call, send a text or upload a new status update.
Partner Contributes to St. Mary’s City Beerfest
This past Saturday, over 1400 people from across Southern Maryland gathered at the 4th annual Historic St. Mary’s City Beerfest. The festival marked the culmination of a year’s worth of planning by managing partner, Samuel C.P. Baldwin, Jr., chairman of the Beerfest Committee.