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On February 18, 2006, CATHERINE GRAUEL MOTZ; beloved wife of the late John Eldred Motz; loving mother of Catherine Motz Peterson and her husband George both of Washington, DC, and John Frederick Motz and his wife Diana; cherished grandmother of Kate and Greg Peterson, and Cassie and Daniel Motz. A Memorial Service will be celebrated in the Broadmead Auditorium, 13801 York Road, Cockeysville on Friday, February 24 at 11 A.M. Those desiring may make memorial contributions to Capitol Hill Day School, 210 S. Carolina Avenue S.E., Washington, DC 20003.

U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz swiftly denied a defense attorney's request for federal intervention in a state proceeding, dismissing the case a day after it was filed. Attorney Gary Proctor had filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus Tuesday, contending that his 19-year-old indigent client was unconstitutionally jailed before trial without evidence to support the gun, assault and attempted murder charges against him. A Baltimore Circuit Court judge threw out a photo identification of defendant Christopher Robinson last month because the picture had been significantly altered by police.

On October 25, 2005, PAUL S. MOTZ, of Cockeysville. Beloved husband of Ellen M. Motz (nee Marshall), loving brother-in-law of Catherine Motz, dear uncle of J. Frederick Motz, Cemmy Peterson, Carol Moomey-Mathews, Bill Peabody, Janet Barrow and Marshall Peabody. A Memorial service will be celebrated in the Chapel of the Maryland Veterans Cemetery, 11501 Garrison Forest Road, Owings Mills, on Wednesday, November 2 at 1 P.M. In lieu of flowers expressions of sympathy may be directed in Mr. Motz's name to Epworth United Methodist Church, 600 Warren Road, Cockeysville, MD 21030.

U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz swiftly denied a defense attorney's request for federal intervention in a state proceeding, dismissing the case a day after it was filed. Attorney Gary Proctor had filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus Tuesday, contending that his 19-year-old indigent client was unconstitutionally jailed before trial without evidence to support the gun, assault and attempted murder charges against him. A Baltimore Circuit Court judge threw out a photo identification of defendant Christopher Robinson last month because the picture had been significantly altered by police.

On January 25, 2006, ELLEN M. MOTZ (nee Marshall); of Cockeysville, beloved wife of the late Paul S. Motz; loving sister in-law of W. Tyler Peabody; dear aunt of Carol Moomey-Mathews, Janet Barrow, Bill and Marshall Peabody, Cemmy Peterson and J. Frederick Motz. Also survived by one great-niece, three great-nephews, one great-great niece and two great-great-nephews. A Memorial Service will be celebrated in the Chapel of the Maryland Veterans Cemetery, 11501 Garrison Forest Road, Owings Mills.

Working late one evening last October, her secretary already gone, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz picked up the phone when it rang in her chambers at the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.It was White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, asking if she would consider an appointment to the federal appellate court.Perhaps he was looking for her husband, she gently suggested. J. Frederick Motz, a Reagan appointee to Maryland's federal bench, was considered by many, including his wife, to be an obvious choice for an appellate seat.

John Eldred Motz, the first president of Greater Baltimore Medical Center and former president of the Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Co., died of pneumonia Monday at the hospital.Mr. Motz, who was 81, lived at Broadmead, a retirement community in Cockeysville.The Baltimore native graduated from City College in 1930, but could not afford college because of the Depression. Instead, he began his business career as a clerk at the Safe Deposit and Trust Co. in Baltimore. He became president when the bank merged with Mercantile Trust Co. in 1963.

Catherine G. Motz, a founder of the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville, died there Saturday of complications from colon cancer. She was 90. Born Catherine Grauel in Baltimore and raised in Roland Park, she was a 1932 Western High School graduate who met her husband, John E. Motz, while both were attending a Christian Science Sunday school. They married in 1936, and he later became president of Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust and also was involved in local charitable institutions, including heading the board of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

A federal judge in Baltimore rejected yesterday Microsoft's plan to settle class-action lawsuits by giving needy public schools $1 billion worth of free computers and software. The decision by Chief U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz handed the software giant another blow in a series of courtroom defeats as it tries to overcome accusations that it has used its monopoly power to overcharge customers. Motz concluded that the proposed settlement would heavily favor the introduction of Microsoft software in schools eligible for the donations, dealing a competitive blow to rivals such as Apple Computer Inc., which controls about a third of the education market.

A federal judge in Baltimore ordered Microsoft Corp. yesterday to package with its Windows operating system a computer programming language made by Sun Microsystems Inc. The ruling stems from Sun's allegations that Microsoft "committed anticompetitive acts" to thwart the distribution of Java, a computer language made by Sun that also runs applications on top of an existing operating system. Sun also alleged that Microsoft is taking advantage of past antitrust violations to gain a monopoly in a chunk of the personal computer market.

A federal court judge on Wednesday dismissed Baltimore's landmark lawsuit against Wells Fargo & Co., saying it was "not plausible" that the mortgage giant triggered millions of dollars in damages, as the city claimed, by causing increased foreclosures through racist, predatory lending. "The alleged connection is even more implausible when considered against the background of other factors leading to the deterioration of the inner city," U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz explained in a six-page memorandum opinion accompanying the dismissal order.

A federal court judge on Wednesday dismissed Baltimore's landmark lawsuit against Wells Fargo & Co., saying it was "not plausible" that the mortgage giant triggered millions of dollars in damages, as the city claimed, by causing increased foreclosures through racist, predatory lending. "The alleged connection is even more implausible when considered against the background of other factors leading to the deterioration of the inner city," U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz explained in a six-page memorandum opinion accompanying the dismissal order.

A federal judge raised doubts Monday about the city's ability to prove huge financial losses from houses left vacant by Wells Fargo foreclosures, the latest development in a landmark civil suit alleging a pattern of racially based, discriminatory lending by the mortgage broker. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz said he might pare the case, if not outright dismiss it. "Should we go down that road? ... It's going to cost a lot of people a lot of money, including the taxpayers," said Motz, who took over the case in August after the previous judge discovered a conflict of interest.

Despite recently losing commercial service once supported by federal subsidies, Hagerstown Regional Airport marks the completion today of a $62 million project that extended its runway by 1,500 feet. The lengthened 7,000-foot runway will allow fully loaded regional jets and charter planes to fly to places such as St. Louis or Atlanta, the airport's director, Carolyn S. Motz, said yesterday. "Now we can do what they do at Reagan National, what any airport that has 7,000 feet of runway does," Motz said.

Standing before the bar of justice to answer for his crimes, former state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell was accorded a stature he never quite attained. He was hailed as a mighty poobah, one of the "most powerful," a lion of the legislature whose wish could not be safely ignored. Those who watched him in General Assembly councils remember a somewhat different figure. He was a bar owner who flaunted his rough edges. He was a big man with a dark, wavy forelock. He laughed a little too loudly.

A million-dollar beach house in Essex? Well, to be specific, this is Rockaway Beach, but the ZIP code lands it in an area that is commonly called Essex -- at least according to the post office. Still, it doesn't matter where this house is located, because with magnificent views of three waterways, including the Chesapeake Bay, from just about every room in the house, it's obviously the perfect spot. "Everything was built for this house with the view in mind," says Bob Rush, who along with his wife, Maryann, planned the home's construction from scratch.

A federal judge in Baltimore questioned Microsoft Corp. yesterday on the proposed settlement of more than 100 private class action lawsuits, and the software giant detailed amendments that it said were aimed at ensuring the agreement's impartiality. Under the proposed settlement, Microsoft would subsidize refurbished computers, pay for new computers, and provide software and training to more than 12,500 schools over five years. Critics have said the proposed settlement is anti-competitive and allows Mi- crosoft to break into one of the few software markets it does not already dominate: schools.

A humbled and contrite Thomas L. Bromwell, who exercised extraordinary political power during almost a quarter-century in elected office, was sentenced yesterday to seven years in prison, ending a public corruption investigation that exposed how a local construction-firm executive spent years bribing the former state senator. Near the end of the two-hour sentencing hearing in the cavernous ceremonial courtroom at U.S. District Court in downtown Baltimore, the 58-year-old Baltimore County Democrat stood up and gripped the lectern.