Schulman v. Attorney General

The plaintiff challenges the Attorney General’s certification of an initiative petition that, if successful, would amend the Massachusetts Constitution by providing, prospectively, that “the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions shall define marriage only as the union of one man and one woman.” The petition was submitted to the Attorney General for certification pursuant to art. 48, The Initiative, Part II, § 3, of the Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution (art. 48), as amended by art. 74 of the Amendments. The plaintiffs challenge to the certification was filed in the county…