Legal Opinion
Fuller v. Republican Central Committee
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided August 21, 2015No. 92/14PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBarbera, C.J.
We granted certiorari in this case to consider the respective roles of the Governor and a party central committee in filling a vacancy created by the departure of a sitting member of the General Assembly. Those roles are spelled out in Section 13(a)(1) of Article III of the Maryland Constitution (“Section 13”). This subsection provides in pertinent part that, in the case of a vacancy,
the Governor shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy from a person whose name shall be submitted to him in writing, within thirty days after the occurrence of the vacancy, by the Central Committee of the…
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