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.)
  • 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.”

CARYN TAMBER, Legal Affairs Writer

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Proposed bill would heavily tax “tobacco” accessories

January 30, 2008

Sen. Anthony Muse (D-Prince George’s County) proposed a bill today that would add a $20 tax to “tobacco paraphernalia” such as bongs and water pipes.

“Bongs are not used for cigarette smoking,” Muse said. “They’re used for illegal drugs. I think people recognize immediately what they’re used for.”

The law would require people to be at least 18 before buying a bong and would apply a $20 tax to their purchase.

Apparently, Muse feels an extra $20 would act as a deterrent for young people who smoke pot.

Here’s the bill.

(Wonder what effect, if any, this could have on hookah bars?)

JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor

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