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NEWMAN v. COMMISSIONERS TO APPORTION SUFFOLK COUNTY

354 Mass. 617 (1968)

241 N.E.2d 163

EMMA G. NEWMAN & others vs. COMMISSIONERS TO APPORTION SUFFOLK COUNTY & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 15, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert H. Hershfang for the petitioners.

Charles H. McGlue for the respondent Commissioners to Apportion Suffolk County.

Mark L. Cohen, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Paul T. Smith & Manuel Katz, for the Speaker of the House of Representatives, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

CUTTER, J.

The petitioners are five registered voters of Ward 4 in Boston. Two are Democrats and three are Republicans. They include members of the elected Republican and Democratic ward committees. They seek in the county court (see St. 1967, c. 877, § 6) a writ of mandamus (a) to command the respondent commissioners to apportion Suffolk County into representative districts (the commissioners1) to make Ward 4 a separate district...

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