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April 8, 2003 MEXICAN AMERICAN LAW STUDENTS ASSOCIATION TO HONOR RIOS Rolando Rios, legal counsel for the League of United Latin American
Citizens (LULAC) will speak Friday, April 11, at 10 a.m. at the University
of New Mexico School of Law, rm. 2401, 1117 Stanford NE. The law school and MALSA, the UNM Mexican American Law Students Association,
sponsor the free talk. Rios will receive the MALSA Fighting For Justice Award at a banquet
April 12. Rios has been involved in redistricting more than 200 jurisdictions
in the U.S. Southwest at all levels from small school districts to the
State of Texas. He has handled election contests, recounts and a broad
range of litigation under the Federal Rios is the former general counsel for the Southwest Voters Registration
and Education Project and has represented the City of San Antonio and
Hispanic and African-American members of the Texas legislature in various
redistricting matters. A decorated Vietnam War veteran, in 1995, Rios
was appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton to serve on the Presidential
Advisory Committee on Gulf War veteran's illnesses. ### |
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