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The United States District Court for the District of Maryland Tackles a Host of COVID-19 Related Cases in Late 2020, From Evictions to Compassionate Prisoner Release to Restrictions Imposed by Governor Hogan’s Executive Orders USA December 23 2020 Effective November 11, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland suspended all in-person proceedings and closed its doors to the public. The restrictions extend, for now, through January 15, 2021. Unsurprisingly, the Court remains busy, including with a host of COVID-19-related matters. This article provides an overvie...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Rev. Dr. Kejuane Artez Bates was a big man with big responsibilities. The arrival of the novel coronavirus in Vidalia, Louisiana, was another burden on a body already breaking under the load. Bates was in his 10th year with the Vidalia Police Department, assigned as a resource officer to the upper elementary school. But with classrooms indefinitely closed, he was back on patrol duty and, like most people in those early days of the pandemic, unprotect...

When Diane Caney asked her ninety-five-year-old mother what she wanted for her birthday, Phillis Leidtke told her that she only wanted her daughter to help others during the pandemic. Caney, a portraitist, and owner of multiple wineries took the challenge on. What formed was a community-based art project to honor “those affected and to express feelings associated with the pandemic”. Caney began asking individuals to submit digital panels, incorporating those panels into quilts, and then displaying the quilts in an online gallery as well as movable public art. Inspired by the AIDS qu...