ST. LOUIS — A judge ruled Friday that community radio station KDHX (88.1 FM) must restore voting rights, at least temporarily, to the 15 disc jockeys or other volunteers who sued after being dismissed late last month.
Judge Joan Moriarty’s order means the disc jockeys or other volunteers will be allowed back into the station’s official organization of volunteers, called associate members.
The associate members are an organization of station volunteers that, according to the station’s bylaws, are allowed to have a say in the operation of the station. Moriarty’s order specifically grants the members the right to vote for the board of directors at the station’s annual meeting on Tuesday.
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Fifteen of the associate members and one former annual member filed suit against the station on Jan. 29, claiming Executive Director Kelly Wells and seven members of the eight-member board of directors were illegally and improperly attempting to consolidate power.
Two days later, on Jan. 31, the station eliminated the positions of 111 of its volunteers. After that, the group of associate members contained only nine members — the eight members of the board of directors and one other person.
Only the 15 plaintiffs who were associate members are included in the temporary restraining order.
The order will be in effect until the associate members’ suit against the station is resolved.
This story has been corrected to show that the temporary restraining order only applies to the plaintiffs of the suit.
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