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· 1/5/1978

Dane v. Board of Registrars of Voters of Concord

Citations

  • 371 N.E.2d 1358
  • 374 Mass. 152
  • 1978 Mass. LEXIS 831

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • equating “residency” with “domicile” in this context and defining latter term
  • \Disfranchisement of convicted criminals by State law was held by the ... Supreme Court in Richardson ... not to violate the equal protection clause.\
  • prisoners entitled to rebut presumption that by reason of their involuntary presence they have retained their former domicile
  • prisoners entitled to rebut presumption that by reason of their involuntary presence they have retained their former domicile
  • prisoners may “ ‘rebut’ the presumption that by reason of their involuntary presence at the place of [their] incarceration they have retained their former domicil”
  • “The word ‘resided,’ as it appears in our constitutional and statutory provisions relating to voter qualification, has long been construed to require that the voter have his ‘domicil’ in the appropriate city or town.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Braucher, Abrams

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