Cota lost the campaign, but continued his fight for correctional reform when he joined six other people in a 1976 taxpayers suit challenging the use of public funds for the reconstruction of Sylmar Juvenile Hall, which had been damaged in the 1971 earthquake. Cota charged that the facility was ...
said Jose Ubaldo, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman. Carrying 25 passengers, the Line 94 bus was heading to Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar.