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Benchmark Litigation honors
Crowe & Dunlevy attorneys
OKLAHOMA CITY
– Crowe & Dunlevy
attorneys Christopher
M. Staine and Evan
G.E. Vincent have been
selected for the annual
Benchmark Litigation
40 & Under Hot List 2020
publication, an exclusive
Christopher M. ranking of U.S. litigators
Staine 40 years of age or
younger.
Staine is a director in
Crowe & Dunlevy’s Dallas
office and serves as chair
of the firm’s Diversity
Committee. He earned
a Juris Doctor from the
University of Oklahoma
College of Law and
his undergraduate
degree from the
Evan G.E.
Vincent University of Oklahoma.
This is Staine’s third
consecutive year to
appear on Benchmark’s list.
A director in the firm’s Oklahoma City
office, this is the fourth time Vincent has
received this recognition, having appeared
in Benchmark Litigation’s list in 2016, 2018
and 2019. Vincent earned his Juris Doctor
from the University of Oklahoma College
of Law and has a master of laws in trial
advocacy from Temple Law School. He
earned his bachelor’s degree from OU.
–Staff report
OCU Law hires new
faculty members
OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorneys Maria T.
Kolar and D.A. Jeremy Telman will join
LEGAL BRIEFS
the faculty of the Oklahoma City University
School of Law starting this fall.
Kolar received her Juris Doctor from
Yale Law School. She previously served as a
visiting assistant professor at the University
of Oklahoma College of Law, where she
taught legal research and writing. Most
recently, she worked for two years in
the Homicide Direct
Appeals Division of the
Oklahoma Indigent
Defense System.
After law school, Kolar
served as a law clerk
at the 7th U.S. Court
of Appeals in Chicago.
She then moved to
Maria T. Oklahoma and worked
Kolar in private practice as a
litigation associate, first
at McAfee & Taft and
then at Hartzog, Conger
& Cason.
Kolar served as a law
clerk on the Oklahoma
Court of Criminal
Appeals for nearly 13
years and as a law clerk
on the U.S. District Court
for the Western District
Jeremy of Oklahoma for two
Telman years, focused solely on
capital habeas corpus
cases.
She served on the bipartisan Oklahoma
Death Penalty Review Commission, who
presented its findings in 2017, and the
Oklahoma Committee for Uniform Criminal
Jury Instructions.
Telman received his Juris Doctor from
the New York University School of Law.
Telman, whose doctorate is in modern
European history, taught in the history
department at the College of Charleston
in Charleston, South Carolina. He has been
a visiting professor at Northern Illinois
University School of Law, DePaul University
College of Law and Drexel University’s
Thomas R. Kline School of Law. He also
served as a Dean’s Visiting Scholar at the
Georgetown University Law Center.
At Brown University, Telman taught
public international law and practiced
commercial litigation in the New York
office of Sidley Austin, where he also
administered and participated in the
office’s pro bono asylum program. For
16 years, he taught at the Valparaiso
University Law School, where he also, at
times, served as associate dean for faculty
development and as the director of
International Programs.
He currently is working on an
intellectual history of originalism in
constitutional interpretation, and he also
continues to write about contract law and
public international law, with a focus on
teaching those subjects to law students.
–Staff report
Evans & Davis adds new intern
EDMOND – Madison
T. Richard has joined
joins Evans & Davis as an
intern.
Richard is a law
student at the University
of Oklahoma School of
Law.
Madison T. She was born in
Richard Lawton and has a
bachelor’s degree in
political science from the University of
Central Oklahoma. –Staff report
OKC receives
funds for human
trafficking victims
OKLAHOMA CITY – The
city of Oklahoma City
received $500,000
Timothy J. from the Department
Downing of Justice’s Office of
Justice Programs and
its component, the
Office for Victims of Crime, to provide safe,
stable housing and appropriate services
to victims of human trafficking.
“Human trafficking is one of the most
abhorrent crimes ever contemplated by
mankind,” said U.S. Attorney Timothy J.
Downing. “The funds provided by the
Department to the city of Oklahoma City
will serve as a force multiplier to assist
human trafficking efforts in the Western
District of Oklahoma, and it will hopefully
provide some comfort and solace to its
victims.”
The grant, awarded to Oklahoma
City will provide six to 24 months of
transitional or short-term housing
assistance for trafficking victims, including
rental, utilities or related expenses, such
as security deposits and relocation costs.
The grant will also provide funding for
support needed to help victims locate
permanent housing, secure employment,
as well as occupational training and
counseling. The city of Oklahoma City is
among 73 organizations receiving more
than $35 million in OVC grants to support
housing services for human trafficking
survivors.
–Staff report

Appeals court revives challenge

to Maryland gun laws Shiela

BY MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – A federal appeals
court has revived a lawsuit challenging
Maryland’s rules for obtaining a handgun as
unconstitutionally restrictive.
The unanimous ruling from the 4th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond
reinstates the lawsuit, which was first filed
in 2016 and tossed out of court by a federal
judge last year.
The lawsuit challenges Maryland’s
handgun licensing law, passed in 2013,
which requires gun purchasers to complete
four hours of safety training in addition to
passing background checks, being 21 years
old and a Maryland resident.
The case was initially dismissed because
the plaintiffs, including the advocacy group
Maryland Shall Issue, lacked standing to sue.
But Monday’s ruling determined that
one of the plaintiffs – Atlantic Guns, which
operates shops in Rockville and Silver Spring
– had standing to sue. The gun shop had
argued that it lost business because of the
rules and that its customers suffered under
the licensing scheme.
The case now goes back to district court
for a trial on the merits.
The opinion was written by Judge G.
Steven Agee and joined by judges Julius
Richardson and Barbara Milano Keenan.
Agee and Richardson were appointed by
Republican presidents, while Keenan was
appointed by a Democrat.
Mark Pennak, president of Maryland
Shall Issue, said he is pleased with the ruling
and not at all surprised after witnessing oral
arguments and seeing the appellate judges’
skepticism about the district court’s ruling. This week’s topic:
He said the licensing requirements add
hundreds of dollars in costs and significant
amounts of time to acquire a license.
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“It’s an astonishing burden,” he said.
Raquel Coombs, a spokeswoman for Our guest this week will be:
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, a
Democrat, said the ruling is under review Michelle Shepard, General Manager,
and declined further comment.
The requirement for training applies to Grand Tapestry at Quail Springs
handguns, not hunting rifles or shotguns.
The 2013 law that passed in the
aftermath of the mass shooting at Sandy
Hook Elementary School in Connecticut
in December 2012 was one of the nation’s
toughest. Other parts of the law, including
a ban on certain types of rifles and high-
capacity magazines, have faced separate
challenges but have been upheld.