Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant upheld a tentative ruling in a lawsuit brought by parent Daniel Lifschitz against the Beverly Hills Unified School District (BHUSD) and individual BHUSD Board of Education Officers/Members Judith Manouchehri, Sigalie Sabag and Russell Stuart on April 9, allowing the case to move forward.
As reported in the Jan. 16 edition of the Courier, the lawsuit alleges that the board violated its own bylaws by installing Sabag as vice president at its Dec. 16 organizational meeting, despite her having received fewer votes than Board Member Amanda Stern in the most recent election. The board’s bylaws stated that when multiple board members have the same term of service, “they shall serve as vice president in descending order of the number of votes received in their most recent election.”
