Fish Market Nominee Corp. v. G.A.A. Inc.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case concerns whether Maryland’s General Assembly may properly authorize Baltimore City to set the redemption interest rate on a tax sale of real estate at a rate greater than the 6% rate provided in Article III, § 57 of the Maryland Constitution.1 We must also determine whether a circuit court, in a proceeding to foreclose the rights of redemption in two properties, can substitute the assignee of only one of the two tax sale certificates so that two plaintiffs, rather than one, are parties in the case.

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Sections 14-808 through 14-854 of the Tax-Property Article of the…