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Denny’s to pay $1.3 million to former employees 

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: June 30, 2011

Tags: ADA, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, Denny’s, disability discrimination, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Denny’s has agreed to pay $1.3 million to dozens of former employees as part of a consent decree that requires the restaurant chain to overhaul its corporate policies regarding people with disabilities.

Jury awards $11.8 million in drunk driving accident 

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: June 22, 2011

Tags: drunk driving

A Maryland jury has awarded more than $11.8 million to a man whose car was rear-ended by a repeat drunk driver in August 2007 and who developed a painful and debilitating nerve condition that has largely confined him to a wheelchair.

Cardiac patient’s family wins $1.5 million verdict 

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: April 4, 2011

Tags: heart surgery, Maryland, medical malpractice

A Baltimore, Md. jury has awarded almost $1.5 million to the family of a 67-year-old Rosedale woman who died a few months after undergoing what was supposed to be low-risk heart surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Jury awards fired Merck employee $555,000 

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: January 20, 2011

Tags: Merck, retaliation

A Baltimore jury has awarded $555,000 to a former Merck & Co. saleswoman who claimed she was fired two years ago in retaliation for reporting her supervisor’s violations of corporate policies.

Maryland county to pay $3.25 million in RLUIPA settlement 

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: December 2, 2010

Tags: land use, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act

After fighting the construction of a Christian school for years and through most of a federal court jury trial, Anne Arundel County in Maryland has agreed to allow Riverdale Baptist Church to build and will pay the church $3.25 million for violating its constitutional rights.

Judge reverses jail order in e-discovery spoliation case 

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: November 10, 2010

Tags: e-discovery, electronic discovery, Sanctions, spoliation

The defendant in a recent e-discovery spoliation case will not go to jail after all for deleting e-mails and other electronically-stored information at the heart of a federal lawsuit over copyright and patent infringement. But the price of his freedom is high.

Workers get $34M for carbon monoxide poisoning 

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: July 29, 2010

Tags: carbon monoxide poisoning

A Baltimore jury has awarded nearly $34 million to 20 restaurant workers who suffered carbon-monoxide poisoning in early 2008.

Jurors gave another half-million dollars to three of the workers’ spouses.

Blind law school grads lose bar exam suit 

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: July 16, 2010

Tags: ADA, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, bar exam, civil rights, National Conference of Bar Examiners

The National Conference of Bar Examiners is not required to allow three blind law school graduates to use screen-access software to take this month’s Multistate Bar Examination, a U.S. District Court judge in Baltimore has ruled.

Class action filed over iPhone 4 

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: July 12, 2010

Tags: class action, defective design, iphone, Maryland

Two iPhone users in Maryland are suing Apple, alleging that their new phones are defective.

Blind law school grads sue over bar exam 

By: Brendan Kearney
Published: June 7, 2010

Tags: ADA, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, bar exam, civil rights

Three blind law school graduates filed suit against the National Conference of Bar Examiners last week after it denied their requests to use screen-access software to take the Multistate Bar Examination in July.