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MD. COMMITTEE v. TAWES

[No. 52, September Term, 1961.]

228 Md. 412 (1962)

180 A.2d 656

MARYLAND COMMITTEE FOR FAIR REPRESENTATION, ET AL. v. TAWES, GOVERNOR AND BOARD OF STATE CANVASSERS, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 25, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred L. Scanlan, with whom were Johnson Bowie, Michael Paul Smith, Francis X. Gallagher, David MacDonald and John B. Wright on the brief, for appellants.

James P. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, and Joseph S. Kaufman, Deputy Attorney General, with whom was Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General on the brief, for appellees.

Brief Amicus Curiae filed by League of Women Voters of Maryland. John I. Heise, Jr., and Charles A. Horsky on the brief.

The cause was reargued on December 12, 1961, before BRUNE, C.J., HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT, HORNEY and MARBURY, JJ., and MACGILL, J., Associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

PRESCOTT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In its entire history, this Court has seldom, if ever, been called upon to decide a case of greater, or more far-reaching, importance than the case at bar. It involves the composition and proper organization of the State Government itself, and the correlative duties and responsibilities of the coordinate branches thereof. The problem calls for the best efforts of all three branches of the State Government in order...

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