The 423rd session of the General Assembly of Maryland came to a close at midnight on April 9, 2007. During the 90 day session, a total of 798 bills gained final approval, along with two joint resolutions. The Senate of Maryland passed 346 bills and ...

Yesterday the House and Senate of Maryland General Assembly each unanimously passed identical bills and following upcoming votes in the other chamber, the Governor has announced his intention to sign SB 106/ HB 172, emergency Administration bills that retroactively prohibit the creation of most new ...

In a recent review of contracts for the sale of real estate in Maryland, 42% of the contracts were found not to comply with law. In the majority of instances, the defect in the contract made it voidable by the purchaser, but in nearly half ...

A Massachusetts court settled a ‘food fight’ between Panera Bread Co. and Qdoba Mexican Grill determining that a burrito is not a sandwich. This dispute arose from a 2001 lease, between Panera Bread Co. and the owners of the White City Shopping Center in Shrewsbury, ...

A contract of sale for residential real property in Maryland, entered into after October 1, 2006, must contain a certain statement notifying the buyer that the property may be located near a military installation that conducts certain military operations or testing. Accepting that real estate ...

The 2006 session of the Maryland General Assembly adjourned at midnight on Monday, April 10th. After consideration of 2,856 bills over 90 days before sine die, the legislature passed a total of 823 bills (489 Senate bills and 334 House bills), and maybe not surprisingly ...

Effective October 1, 2005, Maryland law will limit the liability of a tenant for rent under a residential lease to no more than two months’ rent if the tenant provides a ‘doctor’s note’ terminating the lease before the end of the term because of a ...

Effective October 1, 2005, Maryland law requires a seller of single family residential real property to disclose specified information about latent defects to a purchaser before entering into a sales contract. With this radical change in Maryland law, caveat emptor is dead. The complete maxim, ...