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Civil Rights

Apr. 4, 2007

A Civil Rights Trailblazer's Longest-Running Case

LOS ANGELES - After eight years and a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, pioneering civil rights lawyer R. Samuel Paz's longest-running case is going to trial.

By Robert Iafolla
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - After eight years and a trip to the U.S. Supreme Court, pioneering civil rights lawyer R. Samuel Paz's longest-running case is going to trial.
      The case began when two Oxnard police officers stopped farm worker Oliverio Martinez as he rode his bicycle across a vacant lot on a November evening nearly a decade ago. That stop change...

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