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A judge says he plans to issue an injunction to halt two ballot questions over how they were set to appear on Boca Raton’s Jan. 13 special election ballot.

“For today, these don’t meet constitutional muster,” Circuit Court Judge Joseph Curley said Tuesday afternoon at a hearing in West Palm Beach.

The hearing was the result of a lawsuit filed by Ned Kimmelman, a retired Boca Raton attorney and city resident, on Oct. 31. Kimmelman alleged that the Save Boca group’s charter and ordinance amendments were misleading, contain false language and violate statutes.

“I’m more proud of this than anything I have ever done,” Kimmelman said after the hearing.

Also listed as a defendant was the city of Boca Raton, who in a statement Tuesday said that Cur

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