COMMONWEALTH EQUITY v. MESSICK

No. 352, Sept. Term, 2002.

831 A.2d 1144 (2003)

152 Md. App. 381

COMMONWEALTH EQUITY SERVICES, INC., et al. v. Walter H. MESSICK, et ux.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

September 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert W. Boyce (Jennifer M. Blunt, Kutak Rock LLP, on brief for Commonwealth), Washington, DC, (David B. Stratton, Jordan, Coyne & Savits, Washington, DC, on brief for Michael P. Keating, Sr.), for appellants.

Thomas C. Costello (John H. West, III, West & Moore, LLC, on brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before SALMON, BARBERA, RAYMOND G. THIEME JR., (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.


REPORTED

BARBERA, J.

This appeal arises from a complaint filed by appellees, Walter and Elizabeth Messick, alleging that appellants, Commonwealth Equity Services, Inc. ("Commonwealth") and Michael P. Keating, Sr., fraudulently offered and sold securities. Approximately fifteen months after appellees filed suit, both appellants filed petitions to stay the proceedings and to compel arbitration. Following a...

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