http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord A Daily Record blog devoted to Legal Affairs Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:16:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in September, I wrote about the University of Baltimore bringing back its long-forgotten alma mater. At the time, the only evidence of the song was a piece of paper from 1958 that included the alma mater and Auld Lang Syne. The school's archivists theorized the alma mater was sung as ... http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2009/11/05/ubs-alma-mater-mystery-solved/ Harvard will offer a course on The Wire next year. From The Harvard Crimson: “‘The Wire’ has done more to enhance our understanding of the systemic urban inequality that constrains the lives of the poor than any published study” Sociology Professor William J. Wilson said. African American studies chair Professor Evelyn B. ... http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2009/11/04/will-there-be-tests-on-baltimore-street-lingo/ I walked past what used to be the Court Towers Deli today in Towson and saw something I haven't seen in 19 months: people eating. The Perring Place Express Deli was doing a dry run during breakfast, its second dress rehearsal in a week. The deli, as I've chronicled here before, ... http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2009/11/04/towson-deli-update-iv/ In my story Monday about Baltimore County Circuit Court, I mentioned that foreclosure filings have inundated clerks' offices at courthouses around the state, and that Prince George's County has led the state in foreclosures for at least two years. Unfortunately, I was unable to obtain foreclosure statistics from the clerk's office ... http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2009/11/03/foreclosure-filings-follow-up/ Back in 2007, I wrote about the fascinating case of a Mississippi convicted killer and the Ober Kaler lawyers who were helping with his post-conviction appeals. At first, Alan Michael Rubenstein claimed to have stumbled on the decomposing bodies of his stepson, stepson's wife and their 4-year-old daughter. But he was ... http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2009/11/02/mississippi-killer-dodges-death/ Happy Monday! The Sun's doing a little exchange program, prompted by The Wire, where their crime reporter goes to London and The Independent's crime reporter comes here. Check out the blog set up for the project. A moving billboard driving around D.C. on Friday accused DLA Piper of having "blood on [its] ... http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2009/11/02/monday-law-blog-round-up-23/ The Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved the nomination of Virginia Supreme Court Justice Barbara Keenan for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Keenan must still be approved by the full Senate -- just like U.S. District Judge Andre M. Davis, who was approved by the committee for a ... http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2009/10/29/keenan-joins-davis-in-4th-circuit-waiting-room/ Fifty-five years of marriage is darned impressive. So if Ed and Harriet Neufeld of Aspen Hill have found a fun date activity that gets them out of the house together, more power to them. That said, their hobby is a little... weird. As the Gazette tells us, the Neufelds, who are retired, go ... http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2009/10/29/a-hot-date-at-the-courthouse/ Legendary comedian Soupy Sales died last week at the age of 83. Sales is perhaps best known as the master of the pie-in-the-face and estimated he had been hit more than 19,000 times, according to his obituary in The Washington Post. You might say Sales could be considered an authority on ... http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2009/10/28/best-expert-witness-ever/ If your kid's teacher makes disparaging comments about religion, is it a First Amendment Establishment Clause violation? The 9th Circuit will consider that question. The WSJ Law Blog writes: The teacher, James Corbett of Capistrano Valley High School in Mission Viejo (which graduated former Los Angeles Raider Todd Marinovich) referred to Creationism ... http://mddailyrecord.com/ontherecord/2009/10/28/superstitious-nonsense-comment-heads-to-appeals-court/