ADVISORY/Pacific Legal Foundation and Ward Connerly Give Attorney General Lockyer Failing Grades on ``Equal Opportunity Report Card''.

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ADVISORY...for Monday (Nov. 5)

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Proposition 209 5th Anniversary News Conference;

Call for Action to Clean Up Statewide Noncompliance 

Who:   Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit public interest law firm
       that has successfully litigated a number of Proposition 209
       enforcement actions around the state (including arguing cases
       against the Attorney General before the California Supreme
       Court and the Third District Court of Appeal) and Proposition
       209 Chief Sponsor Ward Connerly.

What:  News conference to issue report card grading the Attorney
       General's Proposition 209 enforcement and compliance record and
       to detail jurisdictions that continue to flout the law.

When:  Monday, November 5, 2001, (the 5th Anniversary of Proposition
       209's passage); 10:15 a.m.

Where: Near the entrance to the Attorney General's Sacramento
       Headquarters Office: 1300 I Street (between 13th and 14th
       Streets).