Legal Opinion
Barlow v. Friendship Heights Citizens' Committee
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided October 1, 1975No. [No. 2, September Term, 1975.]PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSingley, J.
In Friendship Heights v. Funger, 265 Md. 339, 289 A. 2d 329 (1972), we held that the Friendship Heights Citizens’ Committee (the Committee), an elected body which administers a special tax area or district 1 consisting of Friendship Heights and The Hills, two subdivisions located in Montgomery County, lacked the power to bring an action for declaratory and injunctive relief challenging the validity of the rezoning of an 18-acre tract adjacent to Friendship Heights, but beyond the limits of the special tax area.
Our reasoning was that the Committee was not expressly granted the power to sue and…
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