May 2021

Damages awarded tenant when landlord threatens to engage in illegal self-help eviction

The Maryland Supreme Court held that residential tenants can sue for damages if the landlord posts a notice telling them that they are being evicted. This constitutes a form of "nonjudicial self-help eviction" prohibited by state law, which requires landlords to use court eviction procedures to recover possession of the premises. State law would have allowed self...

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Two customers of hotel awarded $475,000 each for denial of equal services under West Virginia state public accommodation law

Erik Taylor and James Turner sought long term rentals at a hotel to work on a local pipeline project in West Virginia. When Taylor called the hotel to inquire about long term apartment rooms, he was told they were available, only to be told the opposite by manager Cindy Kay Adams when he arrived. She falsely told him that there was a waiting list for those rooms...

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Happy International Workers Day

Happy International Workers Day


Although the first day of May was once the pagan festival of Beltane, today people around the globe celebrate it as their version of Labor Day. May 1st became associated with the labor movement because of a massive general strike that started in Chicago in 1886. On that day, over 300,000 workers (and around 40,000 in the city of Chicago alone) walked off of their jobs at 13,000 businesses across the United States. On May 2nd and 3rd, the work stoppage gained momentum and the strike grew to include...

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