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TEIXEIRA v. BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS OF BOSTON

362 Mass. 526 (1972)

287 N.E.2d 606

EDWARD S. TEIXEIRA vs. BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS OF BOSTON & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 22, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Henn for the plaintiff.

Lawrence J. Ball, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the Board of Election Commissioners of Boston.

Present: TAURO, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, & HENNESSEY, JJ.

HENNESSEY, J.

The plaintiff's bill sought declaratory and injunctive relief from a decision of the board of election commissioners of the city of Boston (the board) refusing to accept nomination papers submitted to it by the plaintiff in support of his candidacy for the office of representative to the General Court for the tenth Suffolk district.1 The board ruled that, because each of the plaintiff's papers contained the word "Communist...

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