Hanford Voting Rights
As co-counsel with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, we represented Latino residents of Kings and Tulare Counties in the first case involving a new California law designed to bar at-large elections that disenfranchise minority populations. This important voting rights case challenged the school district's election system that, in the last twenty years, had not resulted in a single Latino being elected. As a result of this lawsuit the school board agreed to allow district-based elections, which will result in full empowerment for Latino voters. (Pro bono)