• Error-plagued speed camera program even more error-plagued than had been realized [Fox Baltimore]
• Del. Joseph Vallario, Jr. [D-Prince George’s] chairs House Judiciary panel while practicing criminal defense law, but as conflicts of interest go we’ve heard worse [Washington Post]
• Theme of recent dramshop, contributory-negligence rulings by Maryland Court of Appeals is restraint [Michael Schearer, more; my WaPo letter on the alcohol-serving case; for a view different from mine, Donald Gifford]
• Pleading guilty in massive Baltimore jail scandal, Tavon White says “many other” guards involved in misconduct, 13 have been indicted [City Paper, Baltimore Sun/CorrectionsOne, AP/HuffPo]
• One view from the other side on unpopular “rain tax” on impervious surfaces [Tom Coale, HoCo Rising]
• “Alas, The Maryland Court of Appeals Has Reversed Ford v. Dixon” [on “every fiber, every breath” asbestos theory; David Oliver]
• What is it with Maryland and surveillance, anyway? State police zealously collect license plate-cam data [J.D. Tuccille]

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