San Gabriel Valley : Court Action Allows Vote on Card Club
Pomona voters will decide Nov. 7 whether they want a card club to open in the city after the California Supreme Court rejected an attempt by casino opponents to block the election.
City Council members, who approved the election on whether to allow the 150-table Pomona Park Casino to open, cheered the court ruling.
“I’ve said continuously the courts would never support [the casino opponents’] argument because there was no substance to their lawsuit,” said Pomona Mayor Edward Cortez.
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday declined without comment to hear the request by the Pomona-based Committee Against Casinos to stop the election. Casino opponents argued that to hold a second election on the same issue within a year violates state elections law. In April, voters rejected a measure that would have allowed two card clubs in the city and also narrowly approved another measure banning such establishments.
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