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CITIZENS FOR COMPETITIVE MASS. v. SEC. OF COMMONWEALTH

413 Mass. 25 (1992)

594 N.E.2d 855

CITIZENS FOR A COMPETITIVE MASSACHUSETTS & others vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 6, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret H. Marshall, Edward F. Hines, Jr., Sarah Chapin Columbia & Kathleen A. Curran for the plaintiffs.

Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, & Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Paul Peter Nicolai & Brian D. Harrington, for Citizens for Limited Taxation, amicus curiae.

Cheryl M. Cronin, Alice Daniel & David A. Nicholas, for Tax Equity Alliance for Massachusetts Inc., & others, amici curiae.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

The plaintiffs commenced this action in the county court seeking a declaration that an initiative petition entitled "An Act to require public reporting of corporate tax information and analysis of certain tax expenditures" is in violation of art. 48 of the Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution and, therefore, should not be allowed to appear on the November, 1992, Statewide ballot. A single justice of this...

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