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ANDERSON v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

SJC-12422.

479 Mass. 780 (2018)

CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON & others v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 18, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin P. Martin ( David J. Zimmer & Joshua J. Bone also present) for the plaintiffs.

Kate R. Cook ( Lisa C. Goodheart also present) for the interveners.

Juliana deHaan Rice , Assistant Attorney General ( Daniel J. Hammond , Assistant Attorney General, also present) for the defendants.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Francis X. Wright, Jr. , City Solicitor of Somerville, David P. Shapiro , Assistant City Solicitor of Somerville, Charles D. Boddy, Jr. , City Attorney of Lawrence, George Markopoulos , Assistant City Solicitor of Lynn, Mark Rumley , City Solicitor of Medford, Mikaela A. McDermott , City Solicitor of New Bedford, & Alan Seewald , City Solicitor of Northampton, for mayor of Somerville & others.

Joseph E. Sandler & Dara Lindenbaum , of the District of Columbia, Ben T. Clements , & Jessica Dormitzer for Ballot Initiative Strategy Center.

Thomas O. Bean for Alliance for Business Leadership.

Andrea C. Kramer for Center on Budget and Policy Priorities & another.

John Pagliaro & Martin J. Newhouse for New England Legal Foundation.

Mark G. Matuschak , Robert K. Smith , & Colleen McCullough for Pioneer Institute, Inc., & another.

Steven P. Lehotsky , Dan Himmelfarb , & John T. Lewis , of the District of Columbia, for Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.

Richard Juang for Adela Gonzalez & others.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

The Attorney General certified as suitable for printing on the 2018 Statewide ballot an initiative petition that would ask voters in the Commonwealth to decide whether to amend the existing flat tax rate mandated by the Massachusetts Constitution in order to impose a graduated tax on residents with incomes in excess of $1 million. The...

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