Legislative Advocacy
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Noteworthy Bills:
Position Paper on Comparative Fault Legislation 2007 »
Position Paper Civil Justice
Act 2005 »
President’s
Comments on Civil Justice Project »
General Assembly Website:
http://mlis.state.md.us/#gena
Find your elected representatives:
http://mdelect.net/
Appellate Advocacy
Del Marr v. Montgomery County, Maryland
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The Maryland Self-Insurers and Employers Compensation Association (MSIECA)
joined the MDC in an amicus brief filed on behalf of the successful
appellee, Montgomery County. MDC and MSIECA argued that when permanent
partial disability benefits are increased in a workers’ compensation matter
due to worsening of the injured worker's condition, a credit for previous
benefits should be based upon the weeks of benefits previously paid. The
Court of Appeals relied upon MDC/MSIECA’s argument that this “weeks-based
formula” should be adopted because it is consistent with the entire
statutory scheme of the Workers’ Compensation Act, rather than the
“dollar-based formula” advanced by the Claimant, which would benefit the
Claimant in this case but make it impossible for a single rule to be applied
in all cases.
MDC’s Amicus Brief
Montgomery Mutual v. Chesson
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MDC supported successful Petitioner Montgomery Mutual Insurance Company at both the petition and merits phases before the Court of Appeals, along with fellow Amici Curiae, National Association of Home Builders (“NAHB”) and the National Multi Housing Council (“NMHC”). The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that the diagnoses and medical causation opinions of Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker in an
office mold exposure workers’ compensation case must be subjected to scrutiny under Maryland’s version of the Frye test.
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C. Maryland State Resources
Generally, first go to the Maryland Sailor site for a listing of each
government branch and related links, searchable databases, web sites,
and state documents.
http://www.sailor.lib.md.us/
Also see Maryland Manual On-Line: A Guide to Maryland Government:
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/html/mmtoc.html
- Executive
Maryland's Electronic Capital lists all of the state and independent
agencies and provides links to agency websites.
http://www.mec.state.md.us/
- Judicial
Maryland Judiciary Home Page with links to Court of Appeals, Court of
Special Appeals, Circuit Courts and District Courts
http://www.courts.state.md.us/
- Legislative
- Other Maryland Sites
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D. Federal Resources
General Resources and Indexes Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
Fedworld home page.
http://www.fedworld.gov/
In 1992, FedWorld was established by The National Technical Information
Service( NTIS), an agency of the U.S Department of Commerce, to serve
as the online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information
disseminated by the Federal Government. This assists agencies and the
public in electronically locating Federal Government information, both
information housed within the NTIS repository and information made accessible
through an electronic gateway.
- Executive
Welcome to the White House (includes searchable executive orders, press
briefings)
http://www.whitehouse.gov
- Judicial
Federal Judiciary Home page:
http://www.uscourts.gov/
- Legislative
Library of Congress' "Thomas" page with search engines to
locate full text and summary federal bills, bill summaries, current
and archived congressional records, committee reports, hearing schedules.
There are also helpful links to other federal executive, judicial and
legislative sources.
http://thomas.loc.gov/
- Other Federal Sites
PACER System for U.S. Courts
http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/
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E. International
- U.S. Treaties
*(Current Session Information) (Senate Web)
Documents identifying treaties received from the President, treaties
on the Executive Calendar, treaties approved by the Senate, and listings
of other recent treaty status actions, including treaties that were
rejected by the Senate or withdrawn by the President, during the current
Congress. This page includes links to the resources on treaties received
from the President during the current congress, treaties on the executive
calendar, and treaties approved, including the status of ratification.
- Web Resources for Foreign and International Legal Research (U. Colo.)
http://spot.colorado.edu/~thompsje/intlaw.htm#treaty
sources
This is a great place to start any search into international materials
and treaties. It contains links to many "how-to" research
resources, and explains how to find full text international materials
on the web.
- Tufts University Multilaterals Project
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/multilaterals.html
Sponsored by the Tufts University (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
Tufts University), this web page attempts to make available the texts
of international multilateral conventions and other instruments. It
contains full texts of some international materials by subject matter,
predominantly including environmental materials, human rights issues
and some commercial and international copyright materials are included.
- United Nations Treaty Collection (U.N.)
http://untreaty.un.org
Text of treaties deposited with the U.N., and current status of multilateral
treaties deposited with the U.N. Requires site registration and a fee,
although sample documents are freely viewable.
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