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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Greenbelt Grapples with Pit Bull Liability

Some officials wondered whether HOAs, cooperatives, condominium associations, or even the city could be held liable in pit bull attacks.

  Greenbelt City Council grappled Monday to understand whether the city and housing communities could be sued in the case of pit bull attacks. The discussion was the result of a much-debated decision by Maryland's Court of Appeals earlier this year that landlords and owners could be held liable for pit bull injuries. Prince George's County has had a ban on pit bulls since 1997, but Councilman Edward Putens was concerned that in cases where residents broke the ban, the court’s decision did not clarify whether responsibility for injuries could extend beyond dog owners and landlords to homeowners associations, condominiums, housing cooperatives, or the city, for that matter. If it did, he worried that the results could be disastrous. “We got …

lauren derise

5:32 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012

Well said colleen. Could not agree with you more.   more ›

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Court Of Appeals Won't Reconsider Pit Bull Decision

Court removes references to pit bull mixes while leaving owners and landlords responsible for injuries caused by pure-bred dogs.

UPDATED (4:27 p.m.)—The Maryland Court of Appeals will not reconsider an April decision in which it ruled that pit bull dogs are"inherently dangerous." Judge Alan Wilner, in a nine-page decision issued Tuesday, denied the motion for reconsideration with one caveat. (The full decision is attached to this story.) "That said, having re-read the briefs, relevant portions of the record extract, and the dissent, I am now convinced that, on the record before us, the application of the Court’s holding of strict liability to cross-bred pit bulls was both gratuitous and erroneous," wrote Wilner. "I would grant the motion for reconsideration, in part, to delete any reference to cross-bred pit bulls, so that the Court’s holding would apply only to pit…

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Are Pit Bulls Dangerous by Nature? Court Says Yes (in Perry Hall Patch) and Expanded Gaming Passes, Pit Bull Legislation Dies

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Frank

2:24 pm on Saturday, December 1, 2012

Previously from Missy: "This is a dog Holocaust, and Tony Solesky is Adolph Hitler." Somehow I doubt she would have written that if she had been talking to Tony Smith.   more ›

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