Lawyers for Maryland?s Republican legislative leaders and the Attorney General?s Office are set to duke it out in a Westminster courtroom Friday over the GOP?s attempt to invalidate the work of last month?s special General Assembly session.

Two legal scholars who have read the pleadings for the Republicans by attorney Irwin Kramer, an Owings Mills Democrat, find the arguments for overturning the tax increases as violations of the state constitution are not persuasive. But the experts differ on whether the slots referendum is the kind of revenue measure that can?t go on the ballot.

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