Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless v. Secretary of Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• restriction on extraneous legislation in appropriations bills would be “an impermissible attempt by one Legislature to dictate to subsequent ones the way in which constitutionally permissible legislative processes may work”
• where declaratory judgment is directed to public officials, injunctive order is \generally unnecessary\ because Massachusetts courts \assume that public officials will comply with the law declared by a court\
• G. L. c. 29, § 7L,. “appears to be an impermissible attempt by one Legislature to dictate to subsequent ones the way in which constitutionally permissible legislative processes may work”
• “ithasbeen our practice to assume that public officials will comply with the law declared by a court . . Doe v. Registrar of Motor Vehicles, 26 Mass.App.Ct. 415, 425 n. 18 (1988

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