LIBERTARIAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS v. SECRETARY OF COMMONWEALTH

SJC-11109.

462 Mass. 538 (2012)

LIBERTARIAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS & another v. SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 18, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Palid ( Matthew C. Baltay with him) for the plaintiffs.

Amy Spector , Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.


CORDY, J.

This case involves the proper interpretation of a Massachusetts election law that governs the filling of a vacancy where a candidate nominated for "state, city or town office" withdraws, dies, or otherwise becomes ineligible prior to an election, G. L. c. 53, § 14 (§ 14), and its application to the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of a minor political party.

Background and procedural history. In early 2008, a pair of...

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