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MOLESWORTH v. STATE BALLOT LAW COMMISSION

348 Mass. 23 (1964)

200 N.E.2d 583

JACK E. MOLESWORTH & OTHERS vs. STATE BALLOT LAW COMMISSION & another (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 22, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noel G. Posternak (Irving Goodman & Morris J. Chaban with him) for the petitioners.

John E. Sullivan, Assistant Attorney General, for the respondents.

Charles H. McGlue, intervener, pro se.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

These two petitions challenge the correctness of a majority decision of the State Ballot Law Commission invalidating a petition for referendum to repeal St. 1963, c. 506, which provides for an increase in salary and expense allowances for members of the General Court. In Molesworth v. Secretary of the Commonwealth, 347 Mass. 47, an emergency preamble was adjudged sufficient to make the statute effective...

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