Nikki Dobay and guest DeAndré Morrow break down three landmark decisions issued by the Maryland Tax Court on Aug. 14 finding Maryland’s first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax unconstitutional on multiple grounds, including the Federal Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA), the Dormant
Earlier this summer, my family took a vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, where the boardwalk offered ice cream, souvenirs, and an unexpected lesson in payment economics. Every retailer we visited added a surcharge of at least 3% for credit-card payments
In Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, (4th Cir., Aug. 18, 2026), the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Maryland federal district court’s preliminary injunction that rejected DHS’s
After years of litigation focused largely on procedural questions, the Maryland Tax Court has issued three significant decisions addressing the merits of Maryland’s Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax).
State regulators are increasingly scrutinizing how companies market digital goods and whether consumers understand the rights they receive when they click “buy.” For companies involved in game publishing, digital distribution, e-commerce, and online marketplaces, the increased focus on digital ownership
Suit was filed last week in a New York federal district court against the presiding bishop of the Georgian Orthodox Church in North America by three Georgian Orthodox monasteries– two in Maryland and one in Oklahoma. The abbots who head
Workplace profanity was business as usual, right up until it accompanied a complaint about racism.
TL;DR: An employee used repeated profanity while complaining to his supervisor about alleged race discrimination. The employer fired him eight days later, but a federal
But can a private for-profit energy company that admittedly does not possess the power of eminent domain force its way onto private property on the theory that it needs entry so the government can evaluate whether to delegate it the
