Our initial inclination was not to blog about DiToto v. Nevro Corp., 2026 WL 1425041 (D. Md. May 21, 2026), given that it was an adverse, poorly reasoned trial court level decision. But then we received an updated citation indicating
Why Maryland Removed Judge Marc Knapp
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Advocacy Groups Sue FDA Over May 2026 Enforcement Guidance — What Industry Needs to Know
As our Tobacco + Nicotine team previously reported, FDA’s May 8, 2026 guidance (the 2026 Guidance or the Guidance) on enforcement priorities for certain unauthorized ENDS and nicotine pouch products created a path for products with pending premarket tobacco
Advocacy Groups Sue FDA Over May 2026 Enforcement Guidance — What Industry Needs to Know
As our Tobacco + Nicotine team previously reported, FDA’s May 8, 2026 guidance (the 2026 Guidance or the Guidance) on enforcement priorities for certain unauthorized ENDS and nicotine pouch products created a path for products with pending premarket tobacco
Synagogue Challenges Firearms Ordinance
An Orthodox Jewish synagogue and its rabbi filed suit last week in a Maryland federal district court challenging a recently adopted Montgomery County, Maryland Ordinance that, among other things, prohibits possessing a firearm within 100 yards of a place of
When Your D&O Insurer Wants Its Money Back — With Interest
Most policyholders purchasing directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance never contemplate the possibility that their insurer will one day demand repayment of advanced defense costs, let alone seek interest on top of repayment. Although many D&O policies preserve an insurer’s
Maryland Supreme Court: Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Does Not Apply to Eviction of Defrocked Bishop From Parsonage
In Eritrean Orthodox Tweahdo Diocese of USA and Canada v. Sinoda, (MD Sup. Ct., July 23, 2026), the Maryland Supreme Court held that the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine does not apply to a wrongful detainer action by a church seeking
An Interview with Joanna Colclough, Leadership Development Program Participant at the Law Library of Congress
Today’s blog interview is with Joanna Colclough who participated in the Leadership Development Program (LDP) at the Library of Congress. Her detail assignment during the program was at the Law Library of Congress.
Describe your background.
I live in
Blue-Collar Kid, White-Collar Profession: Class Identity in the Legal World
I did not grow up around lawyers. I grew up around people who needed them and couldn’t afford them.
I was raised in working-class Baltimore, the kind of neighborhood where your father’s handshake meant more than any contract, where people
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Clarifies That Rooker-Feldman Can Bar Federal Court Review of Non-Final State Court Judgments
On June 18, 2026, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical Systems, concluding that the long-maligned Rooker-Feldman doctrine strictly bars a federal court collateral attack on a state court judgment, even when that