The State - News from Nov. 24, 1988

The ban on a short-lived rule requiring that only English be spoken in a Municipal Court in predominantly Latino Huntington Park was reaffirmed by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Gregory Peterson, a lawyer for the three Municipal Court judges who wrote the rule, said he will recommend that the case be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The judges imposed the ban in 1984 after several non-Spanish-speaking clerks complained that bilingual colleagues made apparently disparaging remarks about them in Spanish. The judges allowed clerks to speak Spanish only when translating for residents who spoke only that language.