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MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS ASS'N v. SECR. OF COMMONWEALTH

384 Mass. 209 (1981)

424 N.E.2d 469

MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION & another vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH & others (and two companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 4, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., & Peter J. McCue for Massachusetts Teachers Association & another.

Mark J. Dalton (Robert J. Canavan with him) for International Brotherhood of Police Officers & others.

Joseph G. Sandulli for Massachusetts Coalition of Police, AFL-CIO.

Donald K. Stern, Assistant Attorney General (James A. Aloisi, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with him) for Secretary of the Commonwealth & others (Russell B. Higley, City Solicitor, for the city of Cambridge, with him).

Paul J. McCarthy & Jeanne C. Farrah for Massachusetts Police Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

At the November, 1980, general election, acting under the initiative process of the Constitution of the Commonwealth, the voters adopted as chapter 580 of the Acts of 1980 a tax limitation measure commonly known as Proposition 2 1/2.4 The plaintiffs contend that Proposition 2 1/2 was not a proper subject of an initiative petition and that procedural requirements of the initiative process authorized by the Constitution were...

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