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CARNEY v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

447 Mass. 218 (2006)

GEORGE L. CARNEY, JR., & others v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 13, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel A. Kozol (Lee H. Kozol & Marc D. Rie with him) for the plaintiffs.

Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General (Lorraine A. Goldenberg-Tarrow, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the defendants.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Thomas R. Kiley for Wonderland Greyhound Owners Association, Inc., & others.

Bradley J. Butwin, Abby F. Rudzin, Samantha L. Hetherington, & Joseph D. Keller, of New York, & Jeffrey D. Hutchins for Committee to Protect Dogs & another.

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

MARSHALL, C.J.

The plaintiffs, four Massachusetts voters, filed suit in the county court to quash the Attorney General's certification of Initiative Petition 05-05, entitled "An Act to protect dogs" (petition), and to enjoin the Secretary of the Commonwealth (Secretary) from placing the petition on the 2006 Statewide ballot. See art. 48, The Initiative, Part II, and The Referendum, Part III, of the Amendments to the Constitution...

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