Group Files Lawsuit to Reinstate Mark Ridley-Thomas to LA City Council

Group Files Lawsuit to Reinstate Mark Ridley-Thomas to LA City Council
Mark Ridley-Thomas speaks during a public event at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles on March 31, 2019. Rachel Luna/Getty Images
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LOS ANGELES—The Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California (SCLC) has filed a lawsuit aimed at getting Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas reinstated to the Los Angeles City Council, from which he was suspended in October 2021 after his indictment in a federal corruption case.

Ridley-Thomas was the organization’s Greater Los Angeles chapter’s executive director from 1981–1991.

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