"Pit Bull" Lawsuit
Joseph Weigel, a resident at Baltimore's low-income Armistead Gardens housing development has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court asking the federal court to strike down a recent decision of the Maryland Court of Appeals (Maryland's highest state court) that pit bull dogs are "inherently dangerous".
Weigel argues that the ruling is unconstitutional and forces him and others at Armistead Gardens into eviction.
Defendants in the lawsuit now include, inter alia, the Chief Judge as well as the Court of Appeals, the Governor of the State, and the Attorney General for the State.
Howard County Schools
In a trend towards the increase use of outside legal counsel, the Howard County (Maryland) Public School System has announced the elimination of its in-house legal department. The school system says this decision will save it at least $200,000 in initial estimated costs for the coming year.
The decision was announced by the school system's new superintendent, Renee A. Foose, to the Howard County Board of Education. Foose says the elimination of the school's in-house legal department is part of her plan to restructure the school system's organization during her first 90 days on the job.
[Maryland Daily Record, October 16, 2012; thedailyrecord.com/2012/10/16]
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