Word: zobel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Defending the constitutionality of the state referendum, Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64 filed an appeal yesterday in an effort to nullify a Monday decision by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel, who found the conduct of the referendum unconstitutional...
...attorneys representing tenant advocates and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union persuaded Zobel that Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly, who conducted the referendum, violated Article 48 of the state constitution by not printing summaries of the proposed laws on the ballot...
...Zobel agreed. "I take the constitutional provision to require that except as authorized in the Constitution itself, the fair and concise summary must be printed on the ballot," the judge wrote in his three-page ruling...
Cambridge City Councillor Jonathan S. Myers said that because the results on some questions were close, Zobel's restraining order is justified...
...addition to the rent control proposal, the four other measures blocked by zobel include Question 3, which allows a check box for voluntary contributions, on student term bills; Question 4, the "term limits" measure; Question 5, which repeals the state's "Blue Laws"; and Question 8, which would require the legislature to spent gasoline tax revenues on highway repair and construction...