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An unsuccessful school board candidate filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that the Irving school district’s system of at-large elections violates the law because it denies representation to Hispanics.
Manuel Benavidez, a Mexican-American who twice ran unsuccessfully for the Irving school board, is the named plaintiff in the suit, which was filed by attorneys for the Dallas firm Bickel & Brewer.
The named defendants are Irving ISD and its seven elected trustees”*
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