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...what could prove an important victory for opponents of rent control, a Massachusetts judge recently ruled that a petition to let a statewide referendum decide the issue has enough signatures to be valid...
...Friday, April 22, Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Martha Sossman ruled that the petition, submitted to the Secretary of State late last year by the anti-rent control Massachusetts Homeowners Coalition, had the required 70,286 valid signatures...
...rent control advocates and the City ofCambridge have filed suit against the attorneygeneral alleging that he should not have certifiedthe petition as valid under the initiativepetition process...
...alleges that the purpose of the petition wasto end rent control in Cambridge, Boston andBrookline, the only three municipalities in thestate that allow the practice. The issue should bedecided within these communities, not on astatewide basis, the suit says...
...suit against the attorney general alsoalleges that a summary of the petition that hisoffice prepared for inclusion on the state ballotwas misleading, because, the suit claims, it ledvoters to believe that the petition was actuallypro-rent control...