Greater D.C. Diaper Bank, one of the largest nonprofit diaper banks in the country, is suing its former landlord.

Liz Schurgin, the diaper bank’s executive director, said the organization asked more than a dozen times since 2023 for roof repairs due to leaks at the warehouse it leased for more than 10 years at 8846 Monard Drive in Silver Spring, Maryland.

“They either ignored our requests or slapped on temporary fixes,” she said. 

According to the lawsuit, “These ongoing and worsening roof leaks slowed, and at times, halted the entire distribution operations of one of The Diaper Bank’s core programs.”

Schurgin said many essential services had to be shut down because of the leaks. “This is the program that distributes formula and diaper cream and other essentials that families really rely on,” she told WTOP. 

The lawsuit also details financial loses claimed by the diaper bank because of alleged poor conditions at the warehouse.

“Deprived of sufficient warehouse space to safely store inventory for the long term, The Diaper Bank was forced to at once liquidate more than $125,000 worth of inventory that was originally earmarked for distribution in months ahead,” court documents state.

In addition, the Greater D.C. Diaper Bank said it lost more than $600,000 in donor contributions that would have otherwise been distributed to families in need because of poor conditions. 

Overall, the diaper bank is seeking $775,000 in damages.

According to the Montgomery Banner, landlord WWDC Industrial Park filed a counterclaim alleging failure to pay rent and breach of contract and requesting that the lawsuit be thrown out. The warehouse owner said the lease specifies that the facility was for storing and distributing diapers, and that the diaper bank was using the warehouse for other purposes.

The bank distributes about 9.5 million diapers a year to more than 40,000 families across the D.C. area.

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Maryland’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a redistricting ballot question should appear before voters on the November ballot, reversing a lower court decision that had blocked the question.

The state’s highest court heard two hours of arguments Thursday over whether the constitutional amendment should go before voters.

“You are equating that to the ballot question itself. I don’t see how the text supports that,” Justice Steven Gould said during the hearing.

Democrats argued that the ballot question concerning congressional redistricting should be allowed to appear on the November ballot.

The measure could give Democrats a chance to gain control of all eight of Maryland’s U.S. House seats.

“The proposal passed by a three-fifths majority of each chamber in the Maryland legislature. Therefore, according to the text of the Constitution, that amendment shall be submitted to the voters at the next ensuing general election in a form prescribed by the General Assembly,” Assistant Attorney General Daniel Kobrin said.

The ballot question reads:

“The proposed Constitutional Amendment clarifies that certain standards in the Maryland Constitution apply only to districts used to elect members of the General Assembly; authorizes the General Assembly to grant original jurisdiction to the Supreme Court of Maryland to review the congressional districting plan of the State; and requires the criteria for boundaries of congressional districts to be determined by applicable federal laws.”

Republicans argued the language is confusing and improperly combines too many changes into a single question.

They also argued that the legislature failed to follow legal deadlines for getting the question on the ballot.

“The legislature itself set these deadlines and then it proceeded to not set up a process that could possibly comply with it. It put itself in that impossible situation, and we think that if the legislature does that, then unless and until it repeals those election statutes, the actors that it told to act in particular ways, they are bound by that,” attorney Jeffrey Clark said.

But the justices questioned whether missing a deadline should be enough to prevent the constitutional amendment from going before voters.

“But you would be giving state executive branch officials effectively the ability to nullify a constitutional amendment proposed by the General Assembly by just missing a deadline,” Gould said.

The Maryland Supreme Court’s ruling clears the way for the redistricting question to appear on the November ballot.

BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. — A three-vehicle crash on Interstate 695’s outer loop near the Cromwell Bridge has closed a lane and the shoulder in Baltimore County this Thursday morning.

The Maryland State Highway Administration listed the collision on the I-695 outer loop at Exit 17, MD 122 (Security Boulevard), at mile marker 13.5.

Officials said three vehicles were involved.

On the outer loop, one of four traffic lanes was closed, and the shoulder was closed.