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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 MORELast week, Murphy, Falcon & Murphy hosted a cocktail event at their Baltimore offices honoring University of Maryland Carey School of Law Professor Sherrilyn Ifill, who was recently appointed President and Director-Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Through a variety of advocacy work, including legislative and educational efforts, LDF has been advancing racial equality…
READ MOREMurphy, 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 MORE“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 MOREIf you’ve been following medical news recently, you may have seen the allegations made against a Florida hospital chain this summer, questioning the need for many of the cardiac procedures performed by their doctors. These cases, unfortunately, are not unique. Performing costly and invasive procedures at the risk of a patient and the benefit of…
READ MOREFounding partner Judge Billy Murphy has spent decades advocating for civil rights and a just legal system. Below, he discusses your rights when interacting with police. This video was produced with Flex Your Rights, a nonprofit providing useful information on how the Bill of Rights affects your interactions with law enforcement.
READ MOREBALTIMORE, 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 MOREFOR 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 MOREBaltimore judge has ordered Michael McCrary’s business partners in a New Orleans condominium project to pay the former Raven $33.6 million for secretly pocketing millions of dollars in insurance proceeds and other money. After trial Wednesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court – during which McCrary’s version of the story was not challenged since all the…
READ MOREMurphy, 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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