MAZZONE v. ATTORNEY GENERAL


432 Mass. 515 (2000)

RICHARD W. MAZZONE & others v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 2, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha Coakley, District Attorney (Marc E. Canner, Robert C. Cosgrove, John P. Zanini, Robert C. Thompson & Joseph M. Ditkoff, Assistant District Attorneys, with her) for the plaintiffs.

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General (Adam Simms, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the defendants.

Merita A. Hopkins & Alicia S. McDonnell for Boston Police Department, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, & SOSMAN, JJ.


SPINA, J.

The plaintiffs3 filed a complaint in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County seeking relief in the nature of certiorari and mandamus against the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Commonwealth (Secretary). The plaintiffs challenge the Attorney General's certification, pursuant to art. 48, The Initiative, Part II, § 3, of the Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution, as amended by art. 74 of the Amendments...

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