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PETITION OF N.H. BAR ASSOC.

No. 2003-482

151 N.H. 112 (2004)

PETITION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE BAR ASSOCIATION

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Opinion Issued: June 14, 2004

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Upton & Hatfield, LLP, of Concord (Frederic K. Upton & a. on the brief, and Mr. Upton orally), for the petitioner.

Peter W. Heed, attorney general (Suzanne M. Gorman, senior assistant attorney general, and Amy B. Mills, assistant attorney general, on the brief, and Ms. Gorman orally), for the State.

Richard J. Lehmann, senate legal counsel, and Betsy B. Miller, house legal counsel, by brief, for the President of the New Hampshire Senate and the Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, as amici curiae.

NADEAU, J.

The petitioner, the New Hampshire Bar Association (Association), invokes the original jurisdiction of this court, SUP. CT. R. 11, in requesting that Laws 2003, chapter 250, codified at RSA 311:7-g to :7-i (Supp. 2003), be declared unconstitutional. We accept jurisdiction because the challenged statute which requires the Association to conduct and be bound by a referendum of its membership on the issue of unification directly conflicts with a decades-old...

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