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Suffolk Superior Court Judge Hiller Zobel issued a temporary restraining order blocking the enactment of five ballot measures approved earlier this month--including the question that banned rent control...
...ruling, Zobel said the Secretary of State's office might not have provided voters with enough information on the ballot questions...
...Zobel's ruling targeted only the five ballot questions with the closest results, including Question 9, whose passage was supposed to end rent control in Cambridge, Boston and Brookline on January...
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...