The Region - News from Oct. 17, 1986

The city of Compton and the American Civil Liberties Union have appealed a decision by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marvin D. Rowen to dismiss their suit seeking to upset the territorial rating system of pricing auto insurance. In the action filed with the state Court of Appeal, ACLU attorney Gary Williams said “the practice of charging a driver with a good record much more for insurance than a driver with a poor record, just because the good driver lives in (a certain) neighborhood, is discriminatory and grossly unfair.” Rowen had said Compton and the ACLU should exhaust administrative remedies first. But the appeal claims no administrative remedies are available.