BLOOM v. WORCESTER


363 Mass. 136 (1973)

293 N.E.2d 268

JOHN A. BLOOM & others vs. CITY OF WORCESTER & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

February 22, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Brett, Assistant City Solicitor (Henry P. Grady, City Solicitor, with him) for the City of Worcester & another.

William B. Field (Robert S. Bowditch with him) for the plaintiffs.

Robert H. Quinn, Attorney General, as amicus curiae, & Walter H. Mayo, III, Assistant Attorney General, submitted a brief.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, HENNESSEY, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

In this proceeding, which has been reported to us without decision on a case stated, the parties seek a determination as to the validity of an ordinance of the city of Worcester which established and granted certain powers to a human rights commission (the commission). The plaintiffs, sixteen registered voters in Worcester, desire a declaration that the ordinance validly conferred the subpoena power on the commission.1 The...

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