Mayor of Cambridge v. Secretary of the Commonwealth

The plaintiffs — the mayor, the city council, and eleven registered voters of the city of Cambridge — seek relief in the nature of mandamus against the defendant, Secretary of the Commonwealth, which would invalidate the 2001 redistricting plan for the 160 representative districts of the House of Representatives in the Commonwealth. The plaintiffs maintain that St. 2001, c. 125, § 1 (the redistricting statute), which establishes the new districts, is unconstitutional under art. 101, as amended by arts. 109, 117, and 119 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, because it…