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Defending the constitutionality of the state referendum, Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64 filed an appeal yesterday in an effort to nullify a Monday decision by Suffolk Superior Court Judge Hiller B. Zobel, who found the conduct of the referendum unconstitutional...
...attorneys representing tenant advocates and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union persuaded Zobel that Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly, who conducted the referendum, violated Article 48 of the state constitution by not printing summaries of the proposed laws on the ballot...
...said the plaintiffs had failed to show that "imminent irreparable harm" would be caused by the certification of the referendum, or that the questions would take effect before their request for a court injunction could be heard...
Despite the restraining order, the Cambridge Tenants' Union will continue to circulate a referendum petition seeking to repeal the city council's home rule petition, said Bryle Breny, a tenant and rent control advocate...
...local group is going to circulate a referendum petition on the vote of the city council when they passed this home rule petition," she said. "That means the legislature would not have a request from the city to pass this new terrible bill that's not even a compromise...