Demetrius NICKENS
v.
MOUNT VERNON REALTY GROUP, LLC, et al.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 19, 2012.
October 19, 2012.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Thomas Davis, Murnaghan Appellate Advocacy Fellow (C. Matthew Hill, Public Justice Center, Baltimore, MD; Kim Parker of Law Office of Kim Parker, P.A., Baltimore, MD), on brief, for petitioner.
Michele Zahner Blumenfeld (Robert L. Ferguson, Jr. of Ferguson, Schetelich & Ballew, P.A., Baltimore, MD), on brief for respondents.
Russell J. Pope (Treanor, Pope & Hughes, P.A., Towson, MD), on brief, for respondents.
Heather L. Gomes, Esq., Hong Park, Esq., Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., Riverdale, MD, for amici curiae brief of Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., Civil Justice, Inc., St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center, Inc. and National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty in support of petitioner.
Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, BARBERA, and McDONALD, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.
HARRELL, J.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
We consider in this case primarily whether Respondents1 committed an impermissible forcible entry when they enforced (through lock-out) the foreclosure purchaser's lawful possessory interest in a dwelling located at 3022 Kentucky Avenue in Baltimore by the means of the common law remedy of self-help,2 as opposed to receiving first the issuance of a statutory...
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