Selinger v. Governor of Maryland

On 30 June 1972, we entered a per curiam order, affirming an order of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, which had denied the petitioners’ bill for declaratory and injunctive relief. We shall now state our reasons.

On 8 April 1971, the General Assembly enacted House Bills Nos. 860 and 861, the Bills, 1 which, in substance, provided that under certain circumstances costs of school construction would thereafter be funded by the State. Norman Selinger and two fellow residents of Montgomery County, the complainants below and appellants here, endeavored to have both Bills brought to…