The Supreme Court of Ohio keeps a roster of certified language interpreters to be used in everything from matters of child ...
A Yolo County Superior Court hearing was postponed due to the need for a Russian interpreter for the defendant, highlighting ...
THE Supreme Court en banc has approved the rules on Filipino Sign Language (FSL) Interpreting in the Judiciary, that aims to ...
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 exists to prevent discrimination based on national origin, gender or religion. The Court Interpreters Act of 1978 and the Amendments to the Act from 1988 ...
When a teenage girl sought a domestic violence protection order, she marked on the form she needed an American Sign Language interpreter. From then on, Luanne Conner appeared at each hearing to ...
A new report details several language access deficiencies in Massachusetts courts, disadvantaging LEP and deaf court users.
WARWICK – In 2021, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell launched the Access to Justice Office and named Tamera Rocha director. Under Rocha’s oversight, the office strives to ensure that ...
Wiggins, who oversees the high court’s Language Access program, said court interpreters must undergo training to handle stressful courtroom situations and pass a national proficiency exam that tests ...
WASHINGTON — A Spanish-speaking detainee at California’s McFarland immigrant detention facility was struggling in May 2023 to tell a doctor, in broken English, that he sometimes bled from his rectum.