· 5/3/2013
Madison Park North Apartments, L.P. v. Commissioner of Housing & Community Development
Citations
- 211 Md. App. 676
- 66 A.3d 93
- 2013 WL 1859040
- 2013 Md. App. LEXIS 54
How courts have described this case
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- explaining that a political question typically \has been specifically delegated to\ another branch of government and \[t]he courts have no judicial control over\ such questions when \delegated to the Legislature\
- explaining that a political question \is a matter ... [that] has been specifically delegated to some other department or particular officer of the government\ and that the judiciary \ha[s] no judicial control over such matters\
- listing examples of courts exercising authority in such cases, all of which involved procedural defects
- explaining that the discretionary constitutional powers held by the Executive and Legislative Branches are not subject to judicial control “not merely because they involve political questions, -but because they are matters which the people have by the Constitution delegated to” those branches
- “Many questions arise which are clearly political, and not of judicial cognizance.”
- “Many questions arise which are clearly political, and not of judicial cognizance.”
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Judges: Wright
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