Real Estate Insider Looking to sue With state and county loans, Discovery In throes of crisis, Anne Arundel contemplates to expand Silver Spring headquarters. 5A filing claims against opioid manufacturers. 8A Thursday, September 7, 2017 Volume 128 | Number 234 TheDailyRecord.com Maryland’s trusted source of business, legal and government news Md. high court considers if flight justifies police search Court of Appeals kicks off new term with Fourth Amendment case BY STEVE LASH [email protected] ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top court grappled Wednesday with just how crime-ridden a neighborhood must be to justify police officers giving chase and frisking for weapons an individual MAXIMILIAN FRANZ who runs away upon seeing them. Lauren Ades, an attorney at Pessin Katz Law, at Union Craft Brewing in Baltimore. The defense lawyer and prosecutor arguing before the Court of Appeals on the first public day of its 2017-2018 term agreed that police in high crime, high-vi- olence areas of major cities would have Maryland breweries discover they reasonable suspicion enabling them to pursue a fleeing individual with- out violating their Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizure and have to bottle capital before beer search. However, the high-court dispute fo- cused not on the violent streets of Bal- Law rm carves out a speciality before the neighborhood brewer can from banks. timore but on Columbia, where Howard helping companies launch begin bottling and selling his own Weiner and Ades got into brewing County police chased down Jamal Sizer product statewide, he probably needs when Adam Benesch came to Ades, a after he ran upon seeing them, was to raise capital and build infrastruc- friend, to ask for help with raising pri- caught and was found carrying a hand- BY TIM CURTIS ture. vate equity for Union Craft Brewing. gun. [email protected] Greg Weiner and Lauren Ades, law- From there, word of mouth spread in Howard County Circuit Judge Le- yers at Pessin Katz Law P.A., have been the collaborative brewing community nore R. Gelfman later said the weapon If it seems like another Maryland helping startup brewers raise capital and Weiner and Ades have handled could not be used as evidence in Sizer’s brewery’s product pops up in the beer in private offerings, letting them main- several more brewing deals, including pending trial on illegal gun possession fridge at the local liquor store every tain their business flexibility without Monument City Brewing and Balti- because the officers’ pursuit in the rel- other week, that’s probably true. But having to rely on commercial loans SEE BREWING 3A SEE FLEE 9A Md. board approves budget cuts, but less than Hogan proposed BY BRYAN P. SEARS proposed by Gov. Larry proposal. The money, which and $200,000, respectively. [email protected] Hogan nearly a week ago. can be used for a variety of State Budget Secretary The balance, which include programs, is typically used David R. Brinkley said the ANNAPOLIS — The funds transfers, will likely for education. Baltimore City midyear cuts were needed Board of Public Works ap- need legislative approval in and Prince George’s County to prepare for the next bud- proved a modified plan to re- the coming legislative ses- are some of the larger recipi- get. He fired back at Demo- duce the current budget. sion. ents of the grants. cratic lawmakers, including The three-member panel Disparity grants to local The balance of the re- Del. Maggie McIntosh, who unanimously approved governments totaling more stored funding will go to Hu- last week said the moves MAXIMILIAN FRANZ nearly $63 million of $79.9 than $6 million make up the manities Council and within were unnecessary and cir- The Board of Public Works in a recent meet- million in planned cuts, bulk of the proposed cuts the Department of Planning cumvented the state budget ing: From left, Treasurer Nancy Kopp, Gov. 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It was a natural fit for Ades and Weiner, whose practice normally lies in the formation of companies, con- tracts between companies and vendors, leases, employees and venture capital. But beyond that, they like these com- panies and what these companies are doing. “This is our juice,” Weiner said. “We love doing this work. … I’m a recov- ering entrepreneur. I wasn’t hatched a lawyer. ... It’s not us just sitting behind a MAXIMILIAN FRANZ desk and this is the drudgery of practic- Attorney Greg Weiner in the Pessin Katz Law ing law. We look for this work and we office. love it, and I think people can feel it.” None of the breweries Ades and tailgate. … When the time came to talk Weiner have worked with have failed about actually raising money, these yet, and they only see the business con- people knew that this guy actually tinuing to grow. But there’s a reason knows what he’s talking about.” that none have failed. By the time brew- ers get to Weiner and Ades, they have A growing community already formed most of their business. After that Union deal, more brewers came to Ades and Weiner, relying on a They might even have some investors MAXIMILIAN FRANZ lined up, but need to get their ducks in Jon Zerivitz, founder of Union Craft Brewing, chats with Lauren Ades,an attorney with Pessin Katz collaborative community that wants to a row. Law, in the brewery’s tap room. see more breweries pop up. For Benesch, Union had almost a “It really is different,” Benesch said.