Sugarloaf Citizens Assoc., Inc. v. Gudis

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• holding that county ethics law did not create private right of action in part because it was “enacted for the purpose of protecting society as a whole”
• holding that the county ethics commission had primary jurisdiction to hear and investigate any complaint about violations of the ethics code where petitioner alleged that a councilman had violated the county ethics code when voting on a zoning issue
• stating that Montgomery County’s ethics law, like the State’s ethics law, “has been read as manifesting the ‘General Assembly’s strong desire to assure the impartiality and independent judgment of public officials’ ”
• “[T]here is ordinarily no common law remedy that permits invalidation of legislative action because of a legislator’s improper motivation. Courts usually do not inquire into legislative motivation as a basis for setting aside legislation.” (citations omitted)
• describing and performing a severability analysis

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