Caretti, Inc. v. Colonnade Ltd. Partnership

WILNER, Chief Justice.

We have before us, for the second time, an attempt by a contractor who performed work on a project in Baltimore City known as the Colonnade to establish a mechanic’s lien against a part of that project.1 This appeal will be decided on a simple, fairly straightforward issue, but, like the earlier one, it spotlights a more serious problem arising from the interplay between the Mechanic’s Lien Law and the Uniform Arbitra*134tion Act. We commented on this problem several years ago in McCormick v. 9690 Deerco Rd., 79 Md.App. 177, 556 A.2d 292 (1989), although, as explained later,…