Professor Kathleen Hoke is quoted in "Ghost gun retailer settles with Baltimore for $2M" in the Maryland Daily Record on April 21, 2026. Hoke is director of the Network for Public Health Law, Eastern Region, and the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy at Maryland Carey Law. She also teaches Public Health and the Law and the Public Health Law Clinic.
Hoke said the court was taking 'a very constrained view of the tort nature of public nuisance for local governments.' 'It doesn’t leave them high and dry,' she said, 'but where we have this more general claim of public nuisance, it’s just taking away one of the litigation tools that a jurisdiction may have.'