Local News in Brief : National JDL Leader Files Rights Suit
Jewish Defense League leader Irv Rubin has filed suit against a Glendale police lieutenant and the Glendale Holiday Inn, alleging that his civil rights were violated during a confrontation at the hotel Nov. 22 sparked by a meeting featuring avowed white supremacist J. B. Stoner.
In the Glendale Municipal Court action, which seeks unspecified damages, Rubin and his press consultant, Jan B. Tucker, contend that Lt. Ronald DePompa violated their First Amendment rights to free expression when he blocked them from entering the the hotel, preventing them from holding a press conference in their room.
The suit, which does not name the city of Glendale as a defendant, alleges that DePompa discriminated against Rubin and Tucker based upon their ethnicity and beliefs.
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