Last month, a judge in Madera County took the unusual step of stopping a local school board election before it was held. He said at-large elections put Latino candidates for the school board at a disadvantage -- a violation of the California Voting Rights Act. We talk with Robert Rubin, legal director at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. He filed the suit that caused the ruling.
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