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Understanding Agricultural Liability: Maryland’s Right-to-Farm Law Can Limit Liability for Maryland Farm, Commercial Fishing, and Seafood Operators

Many individuals moving into agricultural areas in Maryland have no farm backgrounds and little understanding of agricultural operations. The same is true of commercial fishing and seafood operations in Maryland. Once there, the new residents may find the noises, insects, farm equipment on the...

Understanding Agricultural Liability: Premise's Liability

You can take steps to limit your potential liability by understanding your legal obligation or duty to protect visitors and other third parties from foreseeable harm. You also will need to know to whom you owe the duty and what duty others may owe to you. Steps you can take to limit your liability...

Frequently Asked Questions?: Can I Shoot Down a UAV/Drone?

Photo by Edwin Remsberg This post should not be construed as legal advice Late in 2015, Jon Moyle, Ashley Ellixson, and I published Privacy Issues and the Use of sUAS/Drones in Maryland covering basic issues related to privacy issues with UAVs, more commonly known as drones. One issue related to...

Frequently Asked Questions: What Is the Difference Between an Animal Welfare Statute and a Right-to-Farm Statute?

Photo by Edwin Remsberg This post should not be construed as legal advice Introduction You often present us with questions looking to strengthen Maryland’s Right-to-Farm law or one of the county right-to-farm ordinances. Sometimes the questions relate to strengthening these laws in relationship to...

A Quick Overview of Pesticide Drift Liability

Photo by Edwin Remsberg This post should not be considered legal advice Recently I was asked to present at the University of Maryland Extension’s commercial pesticide training in Frederick and Denton. My topic was pesticide drift liability. I decided to bypass looking at the administrative process...

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...

Frederick County Shooting Sports Club

Members of the 2012 Frederick County State Shotgun Team
2012 Sporting Clays Range State Competition
2012 Sporting Clays Range State Competition
2012 Sporting Clays Range State Competition
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