Baltimore, MD
Litigation Lawyer at Baltimore, MD
Practice Areas: Litigation, Contracts & Agreements ... +4 more
OUTCOME: Judgment entered for Citibank
In the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland, Mr. Valkenet obtained a court order requiring the Trustee to disgorge approximately $150,000 to his client arising from the sale of real estate. ... Judge Duncan Kier described the law permitting a lender to leapfrog over the rights of the bankruptcy Trustee, even when a lien is recorded within the preference period. 437 B.R.787
OUTCOME: Negotiated settlement that paid lender's lien
Represented lender in bankruptcy adversary case brought by Trustee seeking to invalidate bank lien. Reported at 409 B.R.79
OUTCOME: Disposed of claim to easements in adjoining land
Greaves appellants claimed prescriptive rights in a two mile dirt road across the Mathis parcel, arising from the appellants status as periodic tenants upon the dominant tenemant. The Court upheld the ... decision of the Court of Special Appeals after oral argument, finding Certiorari had been improvidently granted.
OUTCOME: Disposition of claims an injured longshoreman.
A case concerning the rights of an injured longshoreman under the federa Longshore and Harbor Worker's Compensation Act.
OUTCOME: John P. Sarbanes, George F. Pappas
An appeal concerning millions of dollars in kickbacks, theft, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and contract and piercing the corporate veil.
OUTCOME: Adjudication of rights in "paper street"
Adjoining property owners made competing claims to a platted, but never opened right-of-way, sometimes called a "paper street."