A new era in both environmental regulation and urban revitalization came upon us in early 1997. That new era is the movement to redevelop Maryland’s Brownfields, the name for abandoned or under used commercial and industrial sites where redevelopment is hampered by contamination, whether real ...

A Maryland gas station whose underground storage tanks leaked onto an adjacent property will have to pay for the damages the trespass caused. In JBG/Twinbrook Metro Limited Partnership v. Bobby Joe Wheeler, et al., the Court of Appeals held that the doctrine of assumption of ...