Word: referenda
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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) will attempt to resolve the growing legal fight in the next two weeks. Associate Justice Herbert P. Wilkins announced Tuesday that the five-member court on December 19 will review a lawsuit challenging the voting procedures of last month's state referenda...
Associate Justice Christopher J. Armstrong concurred. He threw out the restraining order for four of the five disputed referenda...
Pushing ahead with the four referenda, Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly--who conducted the disputed vote--immediately submitted them to the Governor's Council for certification, a secretary to the council said yesterday. But they will not be certified until Gov. William F. Weld '66 gives final approval, the secretary said...
While granting the bulk of Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64's appeal of Zobel's ruling, Armstrong refused to give his opinion on whether the conduct of the referenda violated the state constitution...
Four plaintiffs are seeking to nullify the results of the November 8 referenda. They charged Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly--who conducted the vote--with violating the state constitution by not printing summaries of the ballot questions in voting booths, as required by Article 48 of the state constitution...