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YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC CO. v. SEC. OF THE COMMONWEALTH

403 Mass. 203 (1988)

526 N.E.2d 1246

YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC COMPANY & others vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 3, 1988.

August 11, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Kiley, Robert E. Sullivan, Laurie S. Gill & David R. Friedman for the plaintiffs.

James M. Shannon, Attorney General, Thomas A. Barnico & Paul A. Lazour, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Secretary of the Commonwealth & another.

Ellen J. Messing for Christopher J. Hodgkins & others, interveners.

William S. Stowe, for Boston Edison Company, amicus curiae.

Patrick W. Hanifin & Wayne S. Henderson, for New England Legal Foundation, amicus curiae.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

The plaintiffs filed a complaint in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County seeking relief in the nature of certiorari and mandamus respectively against the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Commonwealth in their official capacities. The plaintiffs challenge the Attorney General's certification of an initiative petition pursuant to art. 48 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth. Art. 48, The Initiative, II, § 3...

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