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MAYOR OF CAMBRIDGE v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH

436 Mass. 476 (2002)

MAYOR OF CAMBRIDGE & others v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 8, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Hirsch, of the District of Columbia (Nancy E. Glowa & Scott P. Lewis with him) for the plaintiffs.

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General (Lawrence S. DiCara, Special Assistant Attorney General, with him) for Secretary of the Commonwealth.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Joseph S. Berman for Cambridge Democratic City Committee.

Anne-Marie M. Hyland & Lauren F. Goldberg for the town of Watertown.

Nadine Cohen for Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

COWIN, J.

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...

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