Word: trodden
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...CNCV needed only 4000 signatures--8 per cent of Cambridge voters--to put the issue in the regular election. The group collected those names last August, but City Solicitor Andrew Trodden ruled their petition illegal because it dealt with matters beyond the sphere of Cambridge City government...
Even with Trodden's cooperation the earliest the courts could render a decision would be mid-October. If the decision is favorable, the resolution still would face a tangle of administrative procedures before it can go on the ballot...
Loeser now hopes that Trodden will agree to a "stipulation of facts"--a judicial procedure by which opposing lawyers agree on the facts of the case, eliminating the need for court testimony...
...local groups who want to place an anti-war resolution on the City's November ballot have taken their case to court. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts will now have to decide whether Cambridge City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden was correct last week in ruling against the inclusion of the resolution on the ballot. Trodden said the resolution was "not within the sphere of action of the City of Cambridge...
Proponents of the petitions also point out, and correctly, that the City Council twice last May passed a resolution in support of the war. If Trodden says the city is impotent to deal in foreign affairs, they argue, why is the City Council permitted to vote such resolutions...