Title: Baltimore v. East Oliver Street

State: maryland

Issuer: Maryland Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND
No. 158
September Term, 2008
         
  MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE
               et al. 
   
          v.
   EAST OLIVER STREET LIMITED  
             PARTNERSHIP
 
    
Bell, C.J.
Harrell
Battaglia
     Greene
Murphy
Adkins
     Barbera, 
 JJ.
             ORDER
 
Filed: March 23, 2009 
 
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND
MAYOR & CITY COUNCIL OF
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EAST OLIVER STREET
 
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September Term, 2008
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
 
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ORDER
The Court having considered and granted the petition for writ of certiorari in the
above-captioned case, it is this 23rd day of March, 2009,
 ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, a majority of the Court
concurring, that the Circuit Court’s March 17, 2009 order denying a stay pending appeal and
declining to determine amount of bond or alternate security is hereby reversed; and, it is
further
ORDERED that the emergency motion for stay filed in this Court be, and it is hereby,
granted as requested, conditioned upon East Oliver Street Limited Partnership, by the close
of business (4:30 p.m.) on March 27, 2009: (1) paying to One House at a Time, Inc. the sum
of $7,955.32 as reimbursement of its costs incurred as receiver in preparing for and arranging
the scheduled March 24, 2009 auction of the Subject Property; and (2) posting with the
Circuit Court for Baltimore City a letter of credit from a federally-chartered financial
institution or supersedeas bond, in the amount of $750,000; and it is further
ORDERED that, should any party deem the amount of the letter of credit to be
significantly too low or too high, relief may be sought, upon proper evidentiary showing,
from the Circuit Court for Baltimore City; and it is further 
ORDERED that said case shall be remanded forthwith to the Circuit Court for
Baltimore City for further proceedings.
/s/ Glenn T. Harrell, Jr.                  
Glenn T. Harrell, Jr.
Senior Judge