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Aug 18, 2017
3 min

Weekly Roundup August 18th

By Sarah Fielder Baltimore Food Truck Lawsuit Headed to Trial A lawsuit challenging Baltimore City’s ban on food trucks operating within 300 feet of a brick and mortar food businesses is headed to trial next month according to a ruling by the Circuit Court. Currently, under the law, a food truck found violating the law can be fined $300 and potentially lose their license. To read more about the lawsuit, click here http://bit.ly/2vyT4kv. DuPont Agrees to Buy Granular Dupont

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Aug 4, 2017
2 min

Weekly Roundup August 4th

By Sarah Fielder Court of Appeals Allows Finalists to Intervene The Maryland Court of Appeals has allowed finalists for the medical marijuana license to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit in Baltimore County challenging the final licenses granted by the state. The licensing process has been plagued with issues and legislators are calling for reform. To read more, click here http://wapo.st/2vgKTdf. Senator Introduce Bill to Ban Chlorpyrifos Senator Udall from New Mexico, co-sp

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Challenging An Aquaculture Lease Requires More Than Alleged Violations of the Open Meetings Act

Paul Goeringer

Aug 31, 2016
3 min

Challenging An Aquaculture Lease Requires More Than Alleged Violations of the Open Meetings Act

This post is not legal advice. Today, I venture into looking at aquaculture leases granted by Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR). To obtain an aquaculture lease, the potential lessee must file an application with DNR, which works with other state and federal agencies to ensure meeting the statutory criteria. If met, then the application is published for public comment, and interested parties can commit. What I want to discuss today is that public comment period

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Apr 13, 2015
2 min

Leasing Webinar Announced

Press Release Agricultural land leasing is an important feature of Maryland agriculture. Issues often arise between landlords and tenants not understanding what the law is or how to communicate with each other. On May 4th and May 11, agricultural landlords and tenants or those looking to get into agriculture will have the opportunity to participate in a webinar series focused in on leasing issues. You can register for the webinar at https://arecleasingwebinar.eventbrite.co

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How Does Maryland’s Right-to-Farm Law Compare With Other States?

Paul Goeringer

Nov 20, 2014
4 min

How Does Maryland’s Right-to-Farm Law Compare With Other States?

I am continuing the right-to-farm (RTF) law series today with a comparison of Maryland’s law with other states’ RTF laws. To recap, Ashley has provided an overview of what happened pre-RTF laws. For anyone interested in a good overview of pre-RTF law court decisions by state, please send me an email and I will send you a copy. Mae Johnson has provided you with an idea of what goes into mediating an action arising under Maryland’s RTF law. By the end, hopefully you will ha

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Nov 19, 2014
4 min

What? More Poultry Houses?

By Mae Johnson Editor’s note: As a part of our ongoing right-to-farm law series, we are happy to have Mae Johnson, Administrator, Maryland Agricultural Conflict Resolution Service (ACReS), Maryland Department of Agriculture preparing this post. Maryland’s Right-to-Farm law requires mediation before going to court and ACReS mediates many of these Right-to-Farm disputes. We asked Mae how past mediations have worked involving the Right-to-Farm law to illustrate how neighbors h

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Announcing Rescheduled Leasing Workshops on Upper Shore

Paul Goeringer

Nov 7, 2014
2 min

Announcing Rescheduled Leasing Workshops on Upper Shore

On Dec. 2nd from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., farmers in the Cecil, Kent, Caroline, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot counties area will have an opportunity to learn more about the agricultural land leasing issues at the upcoming Farm Leasing Workshop. The workshop is sponsored by Agriculture Law Education Initiative, University of Maryland Extension, Maryland Department of Agriculture, and Maryland FarmLink and funding is provided by USDA-NIFA and the Northeast Extension Risk Management Educat

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Summer Webinar Series From MSBA’s Section on Agricultural Law and Agriculture Law Education

Paul Goeringer

Jun 11, 2014
3 min

Summer Webinar Series From MSBA’s Section on Agricultural Law and Agriculture Law Education

Over the summer of 2014, the Maryland State Bar Association’s Section on Agricultural Law along with the Agriculture Law Education Initiative (ALEI) will be hosting a series of webinars entitled what a Maryland Attorney Needs to Know About Agriculture. The webinars will start on Wednesday June 18th at noon and run for one hour. The webinars will help to make members of the bar more aware of the issues seen in agriculture and ways to better service agricultural clients. For

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