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COHEN v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

357 Mass. 564 (1970)

259 N.E.2d 539

ROBERT COHEN vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 5, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Cohen, pro se (Alexander J. Cella with him).

William E. Searson, III, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General & another.

Morris M. Goldings (Richard B. Olson, Donald P. Quinn, Donald N. Sweeney & Donald F. Winter with him) for John M. Quinlan & others, intervening respondents.

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

KIRK, J.

The petitioner, a citizen and taxpayer of Massachusetts who is a registered voter of Newton, brings two petitions, one for a writ of certiorari against the Attorney General and one for a writ of mandamus against the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Both petitions challenge as unconstitutional an initiative petition brought pursuant to art. 48 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, entitled, "An Act to ascertain and carry out the will of...

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