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Brought before the council, City Solicitor Andrew T. Trodden replied, "I think there is a conflict with the law." He urged the council to rescind the removal of DeGuglielmo, suspend him, name an interim manager, and let DeGuglielmo ask for hearings before his removal...
...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...
When Superior Court Judge Joseph Mitchell overruled Trodden last week, in his decision he criticized the Commission for failing to process the petition; they "exceeded their authority," he wrote, when they sought Trodden's opinion. The Commission's duty is limited by law to "the ministerial function of ascertaining whether the procedural requirements for submitting an initiative petition have been met," he stated. Judge Mitchell gave the Commissioners just 48 hours to do their job because they had already wrongly wasted so much crucial time. Eight people worked through Columbus Day in order to comply with the court order...
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...