Title: Fire-Rescue v. Board of Elections

State: maryland

Issuer: Maryland Supreme Court

Document:

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND
No. 86
September Term, 2010
       
MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE-
RESCUE ASSOCIATION AND 
   ERIC N. BERNARD
     v.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF 
ELECTIONS AND MONTGOMERY
         COUNTY, MARYLAND
    
Bell, C.J.
Harrell
     Battaglia
Greene 
Murphy   
     Adkins
Barbera,
 JJ.
     PER CURIAM ORDER
Harrell and Battaglia, JJ., dissent.
Filed: September 29, 2010
MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOLUNTEER 
*
In the
RESCUE ASSOCIATION AND    
ERIC N. BERNARD
*
Court of Appeals
v.      
*
of Maryland
     
MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF
*
No. 86
ELECTIONS AND MONTGOMERY 
COUNTY, MARYLAND
*
September Term, 2010
PER CURIAM ORDER
For reasons to be stated later in an opinion to be filed
it is this 29th day of September, 2010,
ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, a majority of
the Court concurring,* that the judgment of the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County be, and it is hereby, reversed, and the matter
remanded to the Circuit Court with directions to enter judgment in
favor of Appellants and an order that a referendum on the validity
of Montgomery County Council Bill No. 13-10 be placed on the ballot
at the General Election to be held on November 2, 2010. Costs to be
paid by the Appellees. Mandate to issue forthwith.
/s/ Robert M. Bell            
Chief Judge
*Judges Harrell and Battaglia would affirm the judgment of the
 Circuit Court.
/s/ Robert M. Bell            
    Chief Judge