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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case on DNA Collection
“Why isn’t this the fingerprinting of the 21st century?” So posed United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. in recent oral arguments challenging the warrantless sampling of DNA from individuals arrested for serious crimes. InMaryland v. King, the defendant, Alonzo Jay King, was arrested for first- and second-degree assault in 2009. Pursuant to…
Read MoreMurphy Family Scholarship Awarded to University of Maryland School of Law Student Victoria Daka
On Friday, March 1, 2013, the Black Law Students Association of the University of Maryland Carey School of Law held its annual awards dinner, announcing scholarships to students as well as honoring high-achieving members of the community (managing partner Hassan Murphy received the ‘Practitioner of the Year’ award). Victoria Daka, a second-year law student, was…
Read MoreImproper Waste Disposal is a Serious Environmental Threat
Hanford Nuclear Reservation, one of the largest and oldest nuclear facilities in the country, made headlines recently when they announced that radioactive waste-a “witch’s brew of toxins” including harmful amounts of plutonium and uranium-is leaking into the ground and will eventually seep into public drinking water. The Washington state dump site uses underground storage tanks…
Read MoreNew Case Alleges Groundwater Contamination in Anne Arundel County
Murphy, Falcon & Murphy has recently filed suit on behalf of a property owner against Constellation Energy, alleging $20 million in damages caused by the energy company’s nearby dump site for waste products created by burning coal. Attorney Gregory K. Kirby is spearheading the firm’s efforts. According to the suit, the groundwater, which a golf…
Read MoreBilly Murphy Makes a Guest Appearance on "The Wire"
“The Wire”, a television drama set and filmed in Baltimore that highlighted the lives of locals and their interactions within the community, gained much critical acclaim when it launched on HBO in 2002. In the fifth and final season, founding partner Billy Murphy made a guest appearance playing himself, representing the show’s fictional state senator,…
Read MoreMurphy PA Files Nationwide Class Action Lawsuit Against Facebook
BALTIMORE, MD– Facebook, Inc., the social networking website with more than 800 million users worldwide, unlawfully tracked the internet activities of its users, the Baltimore-based Murphy PA alleged in a lawsuit filed on Friday. Facebook ignored repeated inquiries from an internet technology and security blogger who discovered that the unique identifiers Facebook uses to identify…
Read MoreJury Awards $34.333 Million Verdict In Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Case
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2010 BALTIMORE, MD–Murphy PA announced today that a Baltimore City jury awarded a collective $34.333 million in damages to the twenty-three plaintiffs who were permanently injured by a carbon monoxide release at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse located at the Pier V hotel on February 2, 2008. The jury’s verdict is one…
Read MoreFirst Class Action Suit For Fly Ash Dump Contamination Filed
Murphy, Falcon & Murphy has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Gambrills, Maryland residents whose wells have been allegedly contaminated by nearby fly ash dump sites operated by Constellation Power Source Generation, Inc. The announcement was made by former Prince George’s County Executive Wayne Curry. To insure the immediate safety of Gambrills residents,…
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