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BROOKLINE v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

417 Mass. 406 (1994)

631 N.E.2d 968

TOWN OF BROOKLINE & others vs. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 31, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Flynn, Town Counsel (Geoffrey P. Wermuth with him) for town of Milton & another.

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

David Lee Turner, Town Counsel, for town of Brookline, was present but did not argue.

William H. Solomon, Town Counsel, for town of Stoneham, was present but did not argue.

Paul DeRensis, Town Counsel, for town of Randolph, joined in a brief.

John P. Flynn & Geoffrey P. Wermuth, for town of Belchertown & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

The plaintiffs, the towns of Brookline, Milton, Randolph, Lynnfield, and Stoneham, and officials and voters of the towns, seek relief in the nature of mandamus against the defendant, Secretary of the Commonwealth, which would invalidate the 1993 redistricting plan for the 160 representative districts of the House of Representatives in the Commonwealth. The plaintiffs maintain that St. 1993, c. 273, § 1, which establishes the new districts, is unconstitutional...

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