# Atlas Commons research objects — civil legal aid capacity for Maryland (FY2025) — context brief Maryland's LSC-funded civil legal aid capacity from the LSC Basic Field grant directory, with each figure's status labeled so a consuming agent can weight it correctly: the measured LSC records (provider count, awarded grant dollars, service-area types, and the Census-based poverty population LSC allocates by); one computed figure — LSC funding per person in poverty — a transparent ratio neither LSC nor Census publishes, with its formula disclosed; and the interpretive boundary (what this funding/capacity surface is, and is not). Source: LSC Basic Field grant directory. CC0. Claims (warrant · source), each re-fetchable to verify: - **1 LSC-funded civil legal aid providers received $6,842,446 in Maryland (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees) - **577,005 people in poverty live in the LSC service areas covering Maryland (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory — poverty population (U.S. Census/ACS) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees) - **LSC grant counts by service-area type in Maryland (FY2025): Agricultural Worker 2, Basic Field 1** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees) - **LSC civil legal aid funding is $11.86 per person in poverty in Maryland (FY2025) — a derived ratio** — DERIVED · Justice Atlas — derived ratio (LSC allocation ÷ service-area poverty population, over the same set of grants) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/) - **What this legal-aid surface is — and is NOT — for Maryland (the epistemic boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the LSC facts above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/) - **Maryland sets a 1 year civil statute of limitations for defamation (libel / slander) (Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-105)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/laws/StatuteText?article=gcj§ion=5-105) - **Maryland sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for contract oral (Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/laws/StatuteText?article=gcj§ion=5-101) - **Maryland sets a 3 years (12 years if under seal) civil statute of limitations for contract written (Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101; § 5-102)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/laws/StatuteText?article=gcj§ion=5-102) - **Maryland sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for fraud (Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101; § 5-203)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/laws/StatuteText?article=gcj§ion=5-203) - **Maryland sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for personal injury (Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/laws/StatuteText?article=gcj§ion=5-101) - **Maryland sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for product liability (Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/laws/StatuteText?article=gcj§ion=5-101) - **Maryland sets a 3 years civil statute of limitations for property damage (Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/laws/StatuteText?article=gcj§ion=5-101) - **Maryland sets a 3 years from death civil statute of limitations for wrongful death (Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-904)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/laws/StatuteText?article=gcj§ion=3-904) - **Maryland sets a 5 years from injury or 3 years from discovery civil statute of limitations for medical malpractice (Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-109)** — RECORDED · CaseFleet Civil Statute-of-Limitations Reference (2026) (https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/laws/StatuteText?article=gcj§ion=5-109) - **Why these statute-of-limitations periods are NOT your deadline (the L5 boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the statutes above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/) Do not take these on trust — re-fetch each named source. Full structured object: `https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/justice/states/md.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object **Maryland — every legal-aid indicator (typed)** (6): LSC-funded providers (distinct organizations) — 1 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; LSC service-area grants — 3 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; Total LSC allocation (USD) — 6842446 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory… **Maryland — LSC grants by service-area type (RECORDED)** (2): Agricultural Worker — 2; Basic Field — 1… **Maryland — LSC-funded legal-aid grants (RECORDED)** (3): Maryland Legal Aid — MD-1 — Basic Field — 6656508 — 561325; Maryland Legal Aid — MMD — Agricultural Worker — 152206 — 12835; Maryland Legal Aid — MDE — Agricultural Worker — 33732 — 2845…