Legal Opinion
Alvarez v. Bateson
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided September 13, 2007No. 750, September Term, 2006Published
1Opinion of the CourtWoodward, J.
The instant appeal calls upon this Court to decide, for the first time, whether a Maryland trial court can grant a stay of a judicial proceeding, under the automatic stay provision of 11 U.S.C. § 362, as to a non-bankrupt co-defendant of a debtor without a prior order granting such a stay from the bankruptcy court administering the debtor’s estate. We hold that the trial court cannot.
Appellants, Jose Alvarez, Ramon Jimenez, Augustin Lemus, Anselmo Reyes, Lucio Rivera, and Amoldo Salgado obtained judgments in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County against Bateson Construction, Inc. (“Bateson…
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