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BUCKLEY v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

371 Mass. 195 (1976)

355 N.E.2d 806

JOHN J. BUCKLEY & others vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 13, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Stewart for the plaintiffs.

Thomas R. Kiley, Assistant Attorney General (Louis A. Rizoli with him) for the defendant.

Frank T. Wojcik, for Robert J. Vanni & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Robert I. Stewart, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

James R. McIntyre, Counsel to the Senate, Dawn-Marie Keefe, Assistant to the Senate Counsel, & John F. Donovan, Counsel to the House of Representatives, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Lewis H. Weinstein & Stephen B. Deutsch, for the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

REARDON, J.

This matter reaches us on reservation and report from a single justice. A declaratory judgment is being sought by the plaintiffs who include the first ten signers of an initiative petition entitled, "An Act banning the private possession and sale of handguns." They seek to establish that a measure proposed by the Legislature as a substitute for a qualified initiative petition is not in accordance with the requirements...

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