http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com The law in plain english Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:02:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You’ve probably read that a Ugandan woman had her own version of an early New Year’s celebration by giving birth to a daughter aboard an international plane flight. The woman, who was not identified, was flying on Northwest Flight 59 from Amsterdam to Boston’s Logan International Airport when she went into ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2009/01/02/a-bit-of-confusion-over-in-flight-births/ You want to know when and where crimes happen, right? A few months ago we added the SpotCrime Local Crime Map to this Web site. Maybe you've used it to search for crimes and compile a log of them. You can sign up for alerts from it, too. But would you ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2008/12/29/web-site-makes-you-a-detective/ Norman Holmes probably won’t have to think hard about a New Year’s resolution — Stay out of trouble. Unfortunately, chances are very good he’ll break his pledge sooner rather than later. Holmes, 41, was sentenced to 90 days in jail in Cincinnati on Monday after his 109th misdemeanor conviction. He had ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2008/12/31/a-new-years-resolution-worth-keeping/ We've seen a lot of division within Maryland and our country during this first decade of the 21st century. The less unified we seem, the more pessimistic we become. We've had plenty of that lately. Here we are, in the midst of winter holidays, several weeks before the inauguration of a new president, wondering ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2008/12/25/were-all-in-this-together/ Most lawyers have had cause to withdraw from a case: an unruly client, a client who hasn’t paid his bill in months, or maybe even a late-breaking conflict of interest. Fewer, though, have given the reason a pair of Covington & Burling partners gave U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte for ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2008/12/23/best-reason-to-withdraw-as-counsel/ You’ll probably always have to report in person for jury duty if summoned, barring some Jetsons-style technological breakthrough. But Baltimore County Circuit Court has recently moved to turning much of the paperwork surrounding a jury summons into a paperless – and hopefully, therefore, painless – process. The county has established a ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2008/12/18/potential-jurors-can-use-the-web/ You've probably seen signs along interstates that insist the speed limit is enforced by aircraft. Brendan L. Smith writes that Maryland stopped flying to catch speeders almost two decades ago. Have you ever gotten a ticket because of a trooper in a plane? Do you know any loser that has? Well, I ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2008/12/16/well-some-states-planes-nail-speeders/ Are you an avid texter? If so, you probably have come across the wink. You’ve seen it—it’s the friendly emoticon typed in millions of times a day via cell phones and computers that is comprised of a semi-colon, hyphen and end parentheses ;-). According to a BBC News report, the wink’s ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2008/12/15/winkers-beware/ In case you missed the news last week, one of the premier wide receivers in the NFL, Plaxico Burress, accidentally shot himself in the right thigh at a Manhattan club. In light of this news, a friend suggested that I check out a new product called the Palm Pistol. The product ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2008/12/09/look-out-for-the-palm-pistol/ Considering how guns drastically alter lives and raise anger, maybe the Second Amendment should have been at the top of the list. Reports of guns being waved, going off and often killing are everywhere. New York Giants football star Plaxico Burress (pictured) accidentally shot himself in the leg with an unlicensed ... http://exhibitanewsbaltimore.com/blog/2008/12/08/learning-to-co-exist-in-a-world-of-guns/