Word: trodden
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...everyone's surprise, the peace forces have come off with victories in the initial skirmishing. A Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled Monday--contrary to City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden's opinion--that there was nothing illegal about an initiative petition bearing a peace resolution. The City Election Commission determined last Friday that the peace petition filed by the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam bore the number of valid signatures required to put it on the ballot...
...Cambridge City Clerk on Sept. 12, and its struggle with City Hall began immediately. The law gives the Election Commissioners 5 days from the date a petition is filed to determine whether it carries enough valid signatures. Instead of checking the signatures, the Election Commissioners asked City Solicitor Trodden for an opinion on the petition's legality. Trodden wrote them, "There is no need to further process this socalled Initiative Petition." It was illegal, he said...
Yesterday's ruling climaxed a long struggle by CNVC. The group circulated its petition last August, gaining its 8000 signatures in only a month. However, on September 18, Cambridge City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden tried to block the petition from the ballot, claiming that it was irrelevant to City business. CNCV then went to court to challenge his ruling, with Cambridge attorney Hans Loeser handling the case...
Some 75 members of Cambridge Vote on Vietnam packed the Council chambers to demand that the City put a petition opposing the Vietnam war onto the November 7 ballot. Two weeks ago, Cambridge City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden disqualified two such petitions on grounds that the issue was irrelevant to City business...
...CNCV is now fighting Trodden's ruling in Middlesex County Superior Court. Walzer is confident the courts will eventually uphold the petition. But the ruling will probably come too late for Nov. 7, according to CNCV lawyer Hans F. Loeser...