context: As we have related, prior to the introduction of the 2012 legislation, Attorney General Gansler and senior members of his office had opined on no less than four separate occasions that CCI's machines, and the way that they were operated, violated then-current Maryland law. Further, even if CCI's machines were legal under the 2008 law, the prohibition against special laws does not restrict the General Assembly's authority to prohibit what was previously permitted.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 200 Md.App. 276, 276
citation_a.parenthetical: that legislation immediately affects only one entity "is not sufficient to render it a special law"
citation_a.sentence: See Days Cove, 200 Md.App. at 276, 27 A.3d 565 (that legislation immediately affects only one entity “is not sufficient to render it a special law”); cf. Stone v. Mississippi, 101 U.S. 814, 818, 25 L.Ed. 1079 (1879) (“[N]o legislature can curtail the power of its successors to make such laws as they may deem proper in matters of [the] police power.”)
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.identifier: 101 U.S. 814, 818
citation_b.parenthetical: "[N]o legislature can curtail the power of its successors to make such laws as they may deem proper in matters of [the] police power."
citation_b.sentence: See Days Cove, 200 Md.App. at 276, 27 A.3d 565 (that legislation immediately affects only one entity “is not sufficient to render it a special law”); cf. Stone v. Mississippi, 101 U.S. 814, 818, 25 L.Ed. 1079 (1879) (“[N]o legislature can curtail the power of its successors to make such laws as they may deem proper in matters of [the] police power.”)