Stern v. Board of Regents

*694CATHELL, J.

This case arises out of a mid-year tuition increase authorized by the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland. On January 23, 2003, the Board of Regents, responding to the Legislature’s mid-fiscal year budget cuts, authorized its constituent institutions to increase their respective tuition for the 2003 Spring semester by up to five percent. Of the eleven institutions authorized to raise tuition, nine chose to do so.1 Appellants, representative students who were enrolled at the nine institutions electing to raise tuition for the Spring 2003 semester, filed suit in the…