Julie Rubin

Time again for Midday on the Law, our look at legal matters in the news with attorneys (and wife and husband) Julie Rubin and Jim Astrachan. On today’s docket: The Maryland Court of Appeals says newly-arrested defendants who can’t afford a lawyer must be provided one during bail hearings; a Howard County judge throws out a drunk-driving case that she said was linked to a police quota system for citations, and the Baltimore Housing Authority has property seized to settle a debt.

Time again for Midday on the Law, our look at legal affairs in the news with Baltimore attorneys -- and husband and wife -- Julie Rubin and Jim Astrachan. On today’s docket: Liars and the law. Stephen Glass, the discredited journalist who fabricated articles for The New Republic in the 1990s, wants to practice law in California and the Supreme Court in that state has agreed to review his application. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to consider a challenge to Arizona's controversial immigration law; we’ll talk about that today.

Midday's legal affairs show, with Baltimore attorneys Jim Astrachan and Julie Rubin.

Midday's legal affairs show, with Baltimore attorneys Jim Astrachan and Julie Rubin.

Midday's legal affairs show with Baltimore attorneys Jim Astrachan and Julie Rubin.

The Baltimore City government and Police Department, along with their top officials, can be sued under federal law for allegedly failing to control Officer Gahiji Tshamba, who was convicted of manslaughter after repeated instances of prior professional misconduct, a U.S. District Court judge ruled. Tshamba, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison this week, shot and killed an unarmed Marine veteran during a fight behind a Mount Vernon nightclub in 2010. Tshamba was off-duty at the time.

On the docket for this edition of Midday on the law, with Jim Astrachan and Julie Rubin: The Supreme Court rules in the Wal-Mart job discrimination case and experts believe the ruling sounds the death knell for other class action suits like it. And while Maryland still debates same-sex Marriage, some county courts have already been considering same-sex divorce. 

Does a memo from Baltimore’s new state’s attorney Gregg Bernstein jeopardize the recent guilty verdicts against two city officers on misconduct charges? The Maryland Mass Transit Administration officially disavowed the actions of two transit officers who hassled tourists taking photographs of light rail trains, but what are the rules – and who makes them – when it comes to photography in public spaces? And what about distributing leaflets in those spaces? A First Amendment discussion with attorneys Julie Rubin and Jim Astrachan on this edition of Midday on the Law.

It's another edition of Midday on the Law with attorneys Julie Rubin and Jim Astrachan. Today, the spotlight is on lawsuits against Baltimore police for wrongful arrests and charges against a Maryland doctor for his role in hundreds of assisted suicides.

In this edition of Midday on the Law we'll look at this week's Supreme Court decision on police searches and the filing of charges in the attack on a transgender woman in Baltimore County. With attorneys Julie Rubin and Jim Astrachan.