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Candidate Michael Ribons Files No Opposition To Perez’s Petition for Writ of Mandate
By a MetNews Staff Writer
Los Angeles Superior Court candidate Michael Ribons failed to file opposition, by yesterday’s noon deadline, to a writ petition seeking to bar use of the word “Arbitrator” in his Nov. 6 ballot designation.
Deputy District Attorney Javier Perez, Ribons’s rival for Office No. 113, contends that the occasional arbitration the real estate broker/attorney handles as a San Fernando Valley Bar Association volunteer does not meet the statutory requirement of a “principal profession, vocation, or occupation.”
A hearing on the writ petition is scheduled for next Thursday before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant. The respondent is Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan.
Ribons did not respond to a July 3 letter from former Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, one of Perez’s lawyers, asking him to voluntarily withdraw his ballot designation of “Attorney/Arbitrator.” He did not show up, personally or by counsel, at the Aug. 10 hearing at which Chalfant set up the briefing schedule.
In the primary, Perez received 289,931 votes, with 233,812 going to Ribons and 178,466 to Deputy District Attorney Steven Schreiner.
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