Updated June 2, 2015, 4:15 p.m. to include details from oral arguments

The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday that could decide if a homeless shelter in downtown Atlanta will eventually shut down.

The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless at Peachtree and Pine has been fighting eviction since 2010, when it faced foreclosure. It had defaulted on a loan of $900,000.

Lawyers for the Task Force and its executive director, Anita Beaty, argued wrongful foreclosure. The shelter claimed powerful businesses’ interests conspired to limit the shelter’s private donations and public funding so it couldn’t pay its debt.

“This group of wealthy downtown business interests, represented by Central Atlanta Progress, became so myopically focused on driving homeless people out of Atlanta, that they stopped at nothing,” argued Steven Hall, an attorney for the Task Force.

But lawyers representing the business community say the shelter defaulted on its loan long before the alleged conspiracy claims took place.

Steve Riddell, an attorney for Central Atlanta Progress, said in court that business leaders, like Chik-Fil-A’s Dan Cathy stopped giving to the shelter because of mismanagement of funds.”

“[Cathy] told them he was going to give them money on a kitchen project. They used this money for other purposes,” Riddell said. “Ms. Beaty admitted that in a letter to Mr. Cathy.”

Lawyer’s for the building’s current owner, Premium Funding Solutions, also say the shelter defaulted on the loan long before the foreclosure and and argues the task force has used the property for free for more than four years, ever since the litigation began.

In August 2014, a Fulton County judge ruled Premium Funding Solutions, which got the deed to the property in 2011, to start eviction proceedings against the task force.

The nine appeals before the Supreme Court stemmed from rulings by the Fulton County Superior Court.

The court is expected to rule on the case later this year.