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Maryland Court of Appeals Negligence; educational malpractice doctrine: Where parents sued school officials for not protecting their minor daughter from injuries from other students, the educational malpractice doctrine did not bar the claims. The court has not applied the educational malpractice doctrine to claims that were not based upon educational placement or pedagogical decisions and ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Consumer Protection; Maryland Consumer Loan Law: Although a law firm engaged in debt collection activities on behalf of a client, including the preparation of a promissory note containing a confessed judgment clause and filing of a confessed judgment complaint to collect a consumer debt, it was not subject to the provisions ...

Maryland Court of Appeals Consumer Protection; private right of action: Where there was no private right of action under a Baltimore City statute prohibiting unlicensed landlords from collecting rent, tenants could not sue their landlord under the statute for the rent it collected while it was unlicensed. Aleti v. Metropolitan Baltimore LLC, No. 39, Sept. ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Contract; damages: Where a tenant argued the landlord received an improper windfall because it was awarded both late fees and interest for a breach, that argument was rejected. The parties’ lease allowed the landlord to recover both late fees and interest in the event of a breach. ...

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit Criminal; civil contempt: Where the defendant argued the wire fraud convictions for her role in a $100 million fraud scheme should be vacated because the scheme was devised and carried out in Israel, her argument was rejected. The statute’s focus is on the use of the wire—not ...