| Subject: Re: [EL] Latino residents of Compton file CVRA lawsuit against all-African American City Council |
| From: Douglas Johnson |
| Date: 12/3/2010, 2:43 PM |
| To: 'Election Law' <election-law@mailman.lls.edu> |
This long-anticipated possibility under the California Voting Rights Act has arrived:
"The complaint filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges that the at-large elections for City Council seats have the effect of diluting the Latino vote. Three Compton voters -– Felicitas Gonzalez, Karmen Grimaldi and Flora Ruiz -- filed the suit . . . The mayor and the four members of Compton's City Council are African American."
- Doug
Douglas Johnson
Fellow
Rose Institute of State and Local Government
Claremont McKenna College
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