State courts are legally obligated to provide interpreters for litigants with limited English proficiency. This report aggregates information on how states are meeting these obligations and provides guidelines for state courts' language access programs.
When Maythe Ramirez went to Superior Court in Contra Costa, Calif., for a child custody hearing in 2006, she wanted to tell the judge that her husband beat her and should not be allowed broad visitation rights . . .
For the first time in more than a decade, Congress has a real chance to lift the crippling restrictions on the federally financed Legal Services Corporation (LSC) that have hampered the agency's efforts to assist poor people seeking redress through the courts . . . .
