Title: Local 1715 v. Cumberland

State: maryland

Issuer: Maryland Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND
No. 88
September Term, 2008
  INT’L ASSOC. OF FIRE FIGHTERS,
LOCAL 
1715, 
CUMBERLAND 
FIREFIGHTERS,
   et al.
                v.
        
   THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF
         CUMBERLAND, et al.        
    
Bell, C.J.
Harrell
Battaglia
     Greene
Murphy
Adkins
Barbera, 
 JJ.
     PER CURIAM ORDER
Filed: September 15, 2008
 
INT’L ASSOC. OF FIRE FIGHTERS,*
In the
LOCAL 1715, CUMBERLAND   
FIREFIGHTERS, et al.
*
Court of Appeals
v.      
*
of Maryland
     
*
No. 88
THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF 
CUMBERLAND, et al.
*
September Term, 2008
PER CURIAM ORDER
For reasons to be stated in an opinion later to be filed, 
it is this 15th day of September, 2008,
ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, that the
judgment of the Circuit Court for Allegany County granting, for the
reasons relied on in its Memorandum and Order of September 10,
2008,the Motion for Summary Judgment filed by the Mayor and City
Council of Cumberland and the Motion to Dismiss filed by the
Allegany County Board of Elections be, and the same is hereby,
reversed; and it is further
ORDERED, that this matter be remanded to the Circuit Court for
Allegany County for further proceedings, as necessary, but not
inconsistent with, for purposes of determining whether Appellants
submitted the requisite number of signatures, the following
principles:
(a)
considering active and inactive voters, as 
well as the three voters registered only to 
vote in Cumberland’s general elections,
 
in determining the requisite number of signatures;
and
(b)
treating the Appellants’ July 25, 2008 and 
August 18, 2008, submissions of signatures
as a single submission;
and it is further
ORDERED, costs to be divided equally between the Appellees.
Mandate to issue forthwith.
/s/ Robert M. Bell            
Chief Judge