Case Title: Getty v. Board of Elections

Citation: 393 Md. 158

Docket Number: 139pc/05

State: maryland

Court: Maryland Supreme Court

Date: 2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

Document:
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND
No. 139
September Term, 2005
         
 JOSEPH M. GETTY AND JAMES HARRIS
                v.
  CARROLL COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS
  AND DANA LEE DEMBROW 
    
Bell, C.J.
Raker
     Wilner
     Cathell
Battaglia
     Greene
Eldridge, John C. (Retired,
             Specially Assigned), 
 
JJ.
     PER CURIAM ORDER
Filed: June 2, 2006 
 
JOSEPH M. GETTY AND
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In the
JAMES HARRIS
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Court of Appeals
v.
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of Maryland
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No. 139
CARROLL COUNTY BOARD OF
ELECTIONS AND DANA LEE DEMBROW
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September Term, 2005
PER CURIAM ORDER
For reasons to be stated in an opinion later to be filed,
it is this 2nd day of June, 2006,
ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, that the
judgment of the Circuit Court for Carroll County be, and it is
hereby, vacated, and the case is remanded to the Circuit Court
for Carroll County with directions to order the Carroll County
Board of Elections that, in the absence of the enactment by
the General Assembly of Maryland, pursuant to Article VII,
§§ 1 and 2 of the Constitution of Maryland, of new legislation
for the election of Carroll County Commissioners in the 2006
elections, the 2006 elections of Carroll County Commissioners
shall be in accordance with § 3-101(a) of the Public Local
Laws of Carroll County as that subsection provided immediately
prior to the passage of Ch. 417 of the Acts of 2003.  The
Circuit Court’s order shall provide that, in the absence of
new legislation by the General Assembly of Maryland, as
referred to above, the Board of County Commissioners of
Carroll County shall consist of three Commissioners to be
elected at large by the voters of Carroll County.
This Court’s mandate shall issue forthwith.  Costs to be
divided equally among the parties.
/s/ Robert M. Bell         
   CHIEF JUDGE