To the editor: I so loved the function on one among California’s most inventive public curiosity attorneys, who represented me in election litigation. (“Roger Diamond, L.A. environmental attorney and champion for the underdog, dies at 81,” Feb. 25.)
The article missed that he was well-known for eliminating the “incumbents listed first” regulation and the “candidates follow in alphabetical order” practice in the 1970s.
And his most novel case could have been suing the Los Angeles Metropolis Council for “not listening” by videotaping a 2003 session exhibiting councilmembers away from their seats, speaking on the telephone, chatting with one another.
He sued, demanding his consumer get a brand new listening to, that the Structure required that the members truly listen. He didn’t succeed however the information protection of elected officers’ inattention hopefully embarrassed officers in every single place into doing a greater job.
Mike Schaefer, San Diego
The author is a member of the State Board of Equalization
