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The City Council has rejected a $1-million claim for damages by a citizens group that has organized Tet Festival celebrations in Little Saigon for nearly two decades.
Members of the Little Saigon Tet Festival Committee said they may file a lawsuit against the city seeking $1 million in damages stemming from the abrupt cancellation of the festival in January.
The group contends that Mayor Frank Fry Jr. abused his position when he canceled a three-day festival planned for February without a public meeting. A smaller parade was organized instead by the city.
Attorneys for the Tet Festival Committee said the group had spent a year planning the event, in addition to 17 previous years of building the festival from a small gathering to a three-day event that attracted 70,000 people last year.
The council had been expected to deny the claim, which Fry had described as “frivolous.”
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