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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS v. SEC. OF STATE

683 A.2d 769 (1996)

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS et al. v. SECRETARY OF STATE et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided September 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E.F. Langsdorf (orally), Anne Skopp, Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, Augusta, for Appellants.

Andrew Ketterer, Attorney General, Thomas D. Warren (orally), Assistant Attorney General, Augusta, and John Rich (orally), and William J. Sheils, Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley & Keddy, Portland, Samuel W. Lanham, Jr. (orally), Cuddy & Lanham, Bangor, for Appellees.

Before WATHEN, C.J., and ROBERTS, GLASSMAN, CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, DANA, and LIPEZ, JJ.

RUDMAN, Justice.

In January of 1993, elector petitions in support of the imposition of term limitations on the members of the Maine Legislature and several executive officers were submitted to the Legislature. The Legislature rejected the measure, and pursuant to the citizen initiative procedure of the Maine Constitution,1 the initiative measure was submitted to the electors. On November 2, 1993, the people of Maine voted to enact the...

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