HOWARD COUNTY v. PACK SHACK INC

No. 1635, Sept. Term, 2000.

773 A.2d 612 (2001)

138 Md. App. 720

HOWARD COUNTY, Maryland, v. The PACK SHACK, INC.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 4, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul T. Johnson, Deputy County Solicitor (Barbara M. Cook, County Solicitor and Louis P. Ruzzi, Senior Assistant County Solicitor, on the brief), Ellicott City, for appellant.

Joseph S. Kaufman (Howard J. Schulman and Schulman & Kaufman, LLC, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., JAMES R. EYLER and RAYMOND G. THIEME (Ret., specially assigned), JJ.


JAMES R. EYLER, Judge.

The principal issue addressed in this opinion is whether there is a right of appeal from a circuit court's denial of a petition for constructive civil contempt for failure to obey an injunction by the party who filed the petition. We conclude that, while ordinarily there is no such right of appeal, there is in this case because the contempt proceeding was in the nature of a civil execution to enforce...

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