REIN v. KOONS FORD, INC.

No. 55, September Term, 1989.

318 Md. 130 (1989)

567 A.2d 101

BERT W. REIN v. KOONS FORD, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 22, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael M. Levy (Levy & Smith, P.C., on brief), Washington, D.C., for appellant.

J. Bradford McCullough (James J. Cromwell, Deborah L. Moran, Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, on brief), Bethesda, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

Under the Maryland law of conflict of laws Maryland courts do not enforce the "penal" laws of other states or nations. The principal question in this case is whether a Virginia consumer protection statute on which the instant transitory action is based is a "penal" statute in the conflict of laws sense. As hereinafter explained, we shall hold that the statute is not penal.

The judgment appealed from was entered on a motion to dismiss. Appellant...

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