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the Legal Challenge...




























Pasadena First has retained legal council from Fredric Woocher of Strumwasser & Woocher, LLP in order to determine the validity of a ballot initiative, Measure A, officially entitled "Proposal for the National Football League Renovation of the Rose Bowl Stadium for Professional Football Use." 
 

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On October 21, 2005, Pasadena First filed a challenge to the NFL Initiative at the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse in Pasadena.   In attendance was Fredric Woocher, attorney and Pasadena First PAC Board Members Kristen Farley, Guadalupe Flores, Bob Kneisel, Richard McDonald, Carolyn Naber and Liz Trussell.    Gene Maddaus of the Pasadena Star-News was interviewing Mr. Woocher.  Dr. Ken Farley, a plaintiff in the lawsuit and Milliard Murphy were also in attendance.
 
 
 

Larry Abelson:  Larry is an attorney with the law firm Epport, Richman & Robbins, LLP in Los Angeles, is a member of the Board of Directors of Pasadena First, a member of the Board of Directors of the West Pasadena Residents’ Association and lives in District 6.  Larry’s personal observation after reading the NFL ballot initiative is that “the initiative would force the City of Pasadena to enter into a one-sided contract under which control of the Rose Bowl and the surrounding Arroyo Seco parklands are ceded to the NFL for up to 55 years for its private, profit-making purposes.”

 






 
"The NFL Initiative is blatantly unconstitutional and invalid, violating at least five separate, fundamental precepts of initiative law."
 
from the text of the lawsuit filed on
October 21, 2005
 
 

Why are we filing a challenge?
 
We are filing this lawsuit in order to put the proponents of the NFL Initiative and the public on notice that this is a severely flawed and illegal measure.  Our hope is that the proponents will see the error of their way and will abandon this misguided effort to overturn the City Council's action, and that they will instead put their energies into working together with the Council majority and the remainder of the community to preserve the magnificent heritage of the Rose Bowl and the Arroyo instead of destroying it and handing it over to the NFL for its profit-making agenda.

 

Pasadena First

 

 

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