Court Cases

Defending Anton's Law in Montgomery County Update April 7, 2026, in a key win for police accountability, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge J. Bradford McCullough issued a sweeping opinion late Friday demanding government transparency in a long-pending lawsuit brought by an anonymous police officer and the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), John Doe v. Montgomery County. The ruling forcefully rejects FOP efforts to undermine and invalidate Anton’s Law – the public information act reform that opens access to police misconduct records. Update: On February 24, 2023, Judge Karla Smith granted the right of the Maryland Coalition for Justice and Police Accountability to intervene in the Montgomery County FOP lawsuit. The judge vacated Montgomery County’s agreement with the FOP to litigate the case in secret, saying it was improper.

Several Black voters and local organizations filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Baltimore under the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 challenging the at-large component of the election system for the Wicomico County Council and Board of Education.