SOC.. has won at least a temporary victory in Los Angeles County Superior Court. SOC had filed suit against Wal-Mart and the City of Rosemead earlier this year, challenging bout a dozen points contained in thie environmental impact report for the project.

On Thurdsay (June 30), Judge Andrew Yaffe ordered a halt to all activity related to the Wal-Mart development until the company and the city correct inadequacies that he identified in two sections of the report.

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Late news: the latest news is that Polly Low came in fourth, beating William Alarcon.

Taken from http://www.walmartwatch.com/neighbor/view.cfm?id=1585

Rosemead Residents Fight WalMart Plans

December 9, 2002

The San Gabriel Valley Tribune, a general circulation California newspaper, published, on December 9, 2002, an excellent synopsis of one of Wal*Marts latest plans to ruin a perfectly good neighborhood -- and of local residents organized opposition to it. The article is, generally speaking, quite accurate.