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COMMITTEE FOR HEALTH CARE FOR MASSACHUSETTS v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

450 Mass. 775 (2008)

COMMITTEE FOR HEALTH CARE FOR MASSACHUSETTS & others v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 10, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was reported by Ireland, J.

Donald K. Stern (Nikki Jean Fisher, Jeff Goldman, & Barbara Roop with him) for the plaintiffs.

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, for Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Present: Marshall, Greaney, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, Cordy, & Botsford, JJ.

CORDY, J.

Ten registered voters of the Commonwealth, some of whom signed a petition proposing an initiative amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution that would require the enactment of laws making health insurance coverage available to all Massachusetts residents, brought this action in the county court seeking a remedy for the failure of the joint session of the Legislature to vote on the amendment prior to adjourning on January 2, 2007.2

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