ROY KIRBY SONS v. QUINTERO, 313 Md. 546 (1988)

546 A.2d 472

ROY KIRBY SONS, INC. ET AL. v. EDWARD J. QUINTERO ET AL.

Petition Docket No. 49, September Term, 1988.Court of Appeals of Maryland.
September 6, 1988.

Robert D. Clark, Baltimore, for petitioner.

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John G. Packard, Herbert J. Arnold, and Janet C. Bacot, Baltimore, for respondent.

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

ORDER
PER CURIAM.

The Court having denied the petition for a writ of certiorari in the above entitled case, 313 Md. 8, 542 A.2d 845, and

The Court thereafter having issued an order requiring the petitioners to show cause under Md. Rule 1-341 why the Court should not require the petitioners to pay the respondents the costs of the proceedings and the reasonable expenses including reasonable attorneys fees incurred by the respondents in opposing the petition, and

The Court having considered the written response to the show cause order filed by counsel for the petitioners, and

The Court having determined that the attorneys for the petitioners without substantial justification filed and thereafter did not withdraw the petition for a writ of certiorari in violation of Md. Rule 1-341, it is this 6th day of September, 1988

ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, that the attorneys for the petitioners shall pay to the respondents four hundred dollars ($400.00) which represents the reasonable costs, expenses and attorneys fees incurred by the respondents in opposing the petition.

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