Associates Commercial Corp. v. Wood

OPINION

MESSITTE, District Judge.

I

Plaintiff Associates Commercial Corporation asks the Court to declare unconstitutional Section 25-210(b) of Maryland’s Transportation Article dealing with abandoned vehicles. The Court agrees that the statute violates the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution and will accordingly enter a summary judgment declaration to that effect. 1

II

Associates, a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Irving, Texas, financed the purchase of certain vehicles by Rodney O. Wood, who resides in Montgomery County, Maryland. One of the vehicles was a…