DOYLE v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH


448 Mass. 114 (2006)

C. JOSEPH DOYLE & others v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 27, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Hanify (Daniel J. Dwyer with him) for the plaintiffs.

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Donald K. Stern, Nikki Jean Fisher, & Jeff Goldman, Committee for Health Care for Massachusetts & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, Sosman, & Cordy, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

As the final day of the current legislative session approaches, the General Court has yet to vote on the merits of a proposed amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution, introduced pursuant to art. 48, The Initiative, IV, §§ 1-5, as amended by art. 81, § 1, of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, which is currently pending before a joint session of the two houses. If eventually...

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