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AMHERST v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

398 Mass. 793 (1986)

502 N.E.2d 128

TOWN OF AMHERST vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 15, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Ritchie, Town Counsel (Alan Seewald & Robert Troxell with him) for the plaintiff.

Joan C. Stoddard, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

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

ABRAMS, J.

The Attorney General disapproved a by-law adopted by the town of Amherst (town).1 The by-law would prohibit with some limitation the discharge of certain firearms within town limits. The town filed a civil action in the nature of certiorari2 in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk. After hearing, a single justice reserved and reported the...

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