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Litigation

Jul. 22, 2014

Bellflower hit with Voting Rights Act lawsuit

Another Southern California city accused of not holding elections fair to minority voters and scheduling regular elections in the spring.


By Kibkabe Araya


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Bellflower is the latest southern California city to be hit by a lawsuit for violating the state's Voting Rights Act due to its failure to set up a district election system and scheduling elections at an unusual time.


Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho in Oakland and the Law Office of Robert Rubin of San Francisco have united for their third recent lawsuit accusing a municipality of violating ...

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