MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, et al.
v.
Keith A. BRADFORD, et al.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 9, 2005.
June 9, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Elizabeth Kameen, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of MD, Valerie V. Cloutier and Elliott L. Schoen, Asst. Attys. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for Appellants/Cross-Respondents.
Elizabeth B. McCallum (Helen K. Michael and Arturo DeCastro of Howrey Simon Arnold & White, L.L.P., Washington, DC; Louis Bogard, Charlottesville, VA; and Susan Goering of American Civil Liberties Union of MD, Baltimore) all on brief; Warren N. Weaver (Ilana Subar of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P., Baltimore; Anthony J. Trotta, Gen. Counsel, Baltimore City Bd. of School Com'rs, Baltimore), all on brief; Ralph S. Taylor, City Sol. (Elizabeth F. Harris, Joshua Auerbach and Christine Wellons, Baltimore), all on brief, for Appellees Cross-Petitioners.
David Sciarra, Executive Dir., Ed. Law Center, Newark, NJ, Molly A. Hunter, Dir., Legal Research, Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc./Access, New York City; Gregory C. Malhoit, Counsel for Rural School and Community Trust, Inc., Raleigh, NC; Edward C. DuMont, Christopher Herrling, Susan Demske, Kelly Thompson Cochran, Jenny R. Chou (Admitted in MD), Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Door, L.L.P., Washington, DC; Julie Underwood, Gen. Counsel, Nat. School Boards Ass'n, Alexandria, VA, brief of Amici Curiae The Nat. School Boards Ass'n, Ed. Law Center, Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc., Rural School and Community Trust, Inc. in support of Appellees.
Leslie T. Thornton, Asuncion C. Hostin, Reginald B. McKnight, Johnisha Matthews, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, L.L.P., Washington, DC, brief of Amici Curiae, The MD State Conference of NAACP Branches, the MD Latino Coalition for Justice, and MD Caucus of Black School Bd. Members.
Stephen A. Friedman, Cary J. Hansel, Abigail Ross Hopper, Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, P.A., Greenbelt, Amici Curiae brief of Dr. Alvin Thornton, MD. Educ. Coalition, American Ass'n of University Women, and League of Women Voters of MD.
Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE and JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.
WILNER, Judge.
This appeal constitutes the latest skirmish in a decades-long battle by Baltimore City and others to force the General Assembly, in carrying out its mandate under Article VIII of the Maryland Constitution to "establish throughout the State a thorough and efficient System of Free Public Schools [and] provide by taxation, or otherwise, for their maintenance," to increase substantially its funding support for the Baltimore City Public School System. The...
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