Legal Opinion
Buckley v. Secretary of the Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 13, 1976PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtReardon, J.
This matter reaches us on reservation and report from a single justice. A declaratory judgment is being sought by the plaintiffs who include the first ten signers of an initiative petition entitled, “An Act banning the private possession and sale of handguns.” They seek to establish that a measure proposed by the Legislature as a substitute for a qualified initiative petition is not in accordance with the requirements of art. 48 of the Amendments to the Constitution of the Commonwealth. They seek also an order prohibiting the defendant from placing the legislative substitute on the November,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Yont v. Secretary of CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1931
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- Raymer v. Tax CommissionerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
- Cohen v. Attorney GeneralMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1968
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3Cited by26 opinions
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