King v. Meese, filed by Public Advocates in 1985, charged that California’s compulsory insurance law discriminated against drivers who live in poor, inner-city neighborhoods where insurance was unaffordable due to red-lining practices. The Los Angeles Superior Court halted the revocation of driver’s licenses for those without proof of insurance, but the California Supreme Court later found the suit without legal merit, noting that the matter would be more properly addressed to the legislature than to the courts. Although the lawsuit was not won in court, it served to show the disparate impact of such laws against low-income communities of color, as did many of the legal and advocacy efforts by the organization in the 1980’s. It also fueled the creation of alternative insurance options by the legislature.