In a landmark ruling on August 1, 2025, Assigned Circuit Judge George Smith of the 6th Judicial Circuit Civil Law Court of Montserrado denied and dismissed a petition for specific performance, which sought the sale of the property housing the headquarters of the CDC, filed by the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) against the intestate estate of the late Martha Stubblefield Bernard, represented by Administrator Ebrima Varney Dempster.
The ruling of Judge Smith reaffirmed a 2016 Supreme Court’s ruling that ordered the CDC to be evicted from the property of Mr. Ebrima Varney Dempster.
The latest petition for a writ of certiorari as filed by the CDC is intended for the Supreme Court to review the August 1, 2025 decision of the lower court, the 6th Judicial Circuit Civil Law Court of Montserrado. A writ of certiorari is a process where one party seeks judicial review of a decision of a lower court by a Superior Court or a Supreme Court.
Will the Supreme Court overturn the decision of the lower court or overturn its own 2016 ruling which the lower court only reaffirmed in its August 1, 2025 ruling?
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