The Supreme Court recently made news by ruling in a 5-4 decision that State laws banning mail or internet wine sales from out of state (but not local) wineries were unconstitutional. In several related cases, the Court held that the 21st amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which ended Prohibition and gave the States control over the sale of alcoholic beverages, …
Loss of Chance of Survival
Claims for injury or death from medical malpractice are perhaps an all too frequent part of the caseload handled by the Maryland courts. When a cancer patient passes away, complex medical and legal issues are often involved. Maryland’s intermediate appellate court addressed one of those issues, the loss of chance of survival, last week in the case of Marcantorio v. …