Rent Ballot Measure Can't Go to Voters, Mass. Justices Say
Elissa Flynn-Poppey and Edmund Daley were quoted in a Law360 article about a significant victory they secured before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The ruling held that a proposed statewide rent control ballot initiative could not appear on the November ballot because it would have impermissibly considered religion as a factor in the law’s application.
Elissa and Ed explain: “The court agreed that the proposed measure was ineligible to proceed because it 'relates to religion' within the meaning of Article 48 of the Massachusetts Constitution, based on its exemption for housing used solely for religious purposes.”
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