Valle v. Pressman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 18 state decisions

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1. ““The office is created by the Constitution.... Removal [of a state’s attorney from office is] a State and not a local function. The naming of a successor to a State’s Attorney who dies or resigns during his term is confided to the Judges of the political subdivision in which he was serving, and Maryland Judges are Officers of the State.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 960 F. Supp. 952 - Lowery v. Prince George's County, Md. · Rucker v. Harford County

2. ““We think the demurrers were overruled, properly. The general rule that a court of equity may not decide election contests or interfere in political controversies is not inflexible and lately has been considerably relaxed. See Maryland Committee for Fair Representation v. Tawes, 228 Md. 412 , following Baker v. Carr, 369 U. S. 186 , 7 L. Ed.2d 663 . Soper v. Jones, 171 Md. 643 , held that a court of equity had jurisdiction of a taxpayer’s suit to enjoin the Secretary of State from certifying the name of a candidate because of his failure to comply with statutory requirements as to signature. Chief Judge Bond referred to the general rule that equity will not decide election cases and said for the Court: ‘But a contention that no controversy that affects elections may be heard and decided by the Court would be at odds with other decisions,’ and cited cases in equity in which jurisdiction had been entertained, such as Carr v. Hyattsville, 115 Md. 545 (a bill to invalidate a referendum election on a local act); Graf v. Hiser, 144 Md. 418 (a bill to declare a referendum election invalid as improperly held); and Sun Cab Co. v. Cloud, 162 Md. 419 (a bill to restrain the holding of a referendum election because the signatures seeking it did not meet constitutional requirements). Judge Bond went on to point out that in the Sun Cab case a distinction was drawn between ‘interferences by the courts with the political conduct of elections, and taking jurisdiction of a question whether per”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dorf v. Skolnik