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FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

371 Mass. 773 (1977)

359 N.E.2d 1262

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON & others vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 1, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis H. Fox (E. Susan Garsh with him) for The First National Bank of Boston & others.

Thomas R. Kiley, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General.

Ernest Winsor for Coalition for Tax Reform, Inc. & another, interveners.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & LIACOS, JJ.

LIACOS, J.

The plaintiffs brought a declaratory judgment proceeding under G.L.c. 231A alleging that they intended to expend moneys to publicize, by newspaper advertisements and other similar methods, their views with respect to a proposed constitutional amendment which was to be submitted to the voters as a referendum question at the general election on November 2, 1976. The proposed amendment, set out in the margin,3 would permit,

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