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FEENEY v. COMMONWEALTH

373 Mass. 359 (1977)

366 N.E.2d 1262

HELEN B. FEENEY vs. COMMONWEALTH & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 16, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Kiley, Assistant Attorney General (Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, with him) for the Commonwealth & another.

Richard P. Ward for Helen B. Feeney.

Daniel A. Taylor, Chief Legal Counsel to the Governor, Benjamin Jones, Assistant Legal Counsel to the Governor, & Patrick J. Sharkey, for the Governor & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

LIACOS, J.

We have been presented with a question certified to us by the Supreme Court of the United States1 pursuant to S.J.C. Rule 3:21, as amended, 366 Mass. 871 (1974). The question pertains to the authority of the Attorney General to prosecute an appeal to the Supreme Court from a judgment of the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, contrary to the expressed objections of State officers whom he represented in the...

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