Category: Premises Liability

The holiday season brings the iconic outdoor winter markets to Washington DC, Baltimore, and many other towns around the region. These bustling open-air marketplaces are a wonderful place to get a festive meal, a warming beverage, or a gift for friends and family. They can be a highlight of the season. But the combination of…

Thanksgiving season is well and truly upon us. The chill of late fall is settling in after a mild autumn in the DMV. The supermarket meat aisles are stuffed with turkeys. The holiday air and highway traffic is building. Football season is heading towards its dramatic climax. The signs are impossible to miss. One more…

A recent topic of idle conversation around the Malloy Law offices water cooler has concerned the opening of a new supermarket in the vicinity of our downtown Bethesda offices. Lidl is not just a new member of the Bethesda business community, it’s a growing presence in the American grocery market. This German chain of discount…

Are you familiar with the concept of “in loco parentis?” This Latin term, roughly translating to “in place of the parents” is a legal concept which assigns responsibility over the care and wellbeing of children to relevant adults. We mostly see it employed in daycares and schools. As classes all over America resume, our nation’s…