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SEARS v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

369 Mass. 392 (1975)

341 N.E.2d 264

JOHN W. SEARS & others vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 31, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Steward (John W. Sears with him) for the plaintiffs.

Thomas R. Kiley, Assistant Attorney General, for the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Present: REARDON, QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, HENNESSEY, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

The plaintiffs in each of these cases2 raise substantially the same issues challenging various aspects of St. 1975, c. 600, which made changes in the procedures by which presidential primaries are to be conducted in the Commonwealth.

The plaintiffs contest the constitutionality of § 13 of c. 600 which amends G.L.c. 53, § 70B, to change the method by which delegates to national conventions of political parties...

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