The San Gabriel-Pomona Valley program sued Legal Services Corp. to stop the takeover, claiming the federal program based the decision on favoritism for the politically active Dudovitz and the politically powerful Iwasaki.
The federal program is thought to have favoritism.
Rushes taken from the lakes were traditionally used to carpet church floors in the Lake District, and once a year, to refresh this floor covering, children from the village would ceremonially carry a new batch of rushes into the church.