Law blog round-up
September 15, 2008
Happy Monday! Here are a few law links for you:
- The Prince George’s County state’s attorney’s office has a new unit focused on foreclosure fraud. The county has become a magnet for real estate scam artists. Says Del. Doyle Niemann, who is also a prosecutor in PG, “We even have people coming in to teach seminars to others on how to rip people off.” For more on real estate investment seminars, check out a package of stories I wrote earlier this year. (You can get to all three stories from this page.)
- Speaking of PG, whoohoo! They’ve added their court files to the state’s judiciary case search Web site. This means you can look for cases from there without actually trekking there.
- A state delegate violated a law he voted for, a judge says. Del. Tony McConkey of Severna Park ran afoul of the Protection of Homeowners in Foreclosure Act when he, acting as a “foreclosure consultant,” bought the home of a woman for whom he was “consulting,” the judge ruled.
- The Drug and Device Law blog has positive reviews for this month’s Gourdine v. Crews decision (PDF), in which the Court of Appeals, as my colleague Christina Doran wrote, “refused to impose liability on Eli Lilly and Co. for the 2002 death of former Prince George’s County Councilman Isaac J. “Ike” Gourdine, who was killed after driver Ellen Crews suffered an adverse reaction to diabetes medication.” Drug and Device Law says a decision that Lilly could be held liable would have been “too awful to contemplate.”
- Sarah Palin is the new Monica Goodling, UM law prof Sherrilyn Ifill argues.
CARYN TAMBER, Legal Affairs Writer
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