Gray v. VIRGINIA SECRETARY OF TRANS.

How courts have described this case

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• holding plaintiffs could seek declaratory and injunctive relief to remedy allegedly unconstitutional delegation of power by various entities and officials of the Commonwealth
• stating that “self-executing” constitutional provisions, such as the separation of powers, are “operative without the need for supplemental legislation” and are therefore “enforceable in a common law action”
• holding that this provision is self-executing
• holding that this provision is self-executing
• “The Plaintiffs’ standing to bring this action was not challenged in the circuit court and thus is not a question before this Court.”
• “We hold that Article I, Section 5; Article III, Section 1; and Article IV, Section 1 are self-executing constitutional provisions and thereby waive the Commonwealth’s sovereign immunity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).