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Education

Jun. 23, 2006

Case Weighs Language as a Voting Right

SAN FRANCISCO - A 15-judge panel of a federal appeals court today is scheduled to consider whether a civil rights-era voting law requires recall petitions to be distributed in multiple languages so non-English-speaking voters can understand them.

By Amelia Hansen
Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - A 15-judge panel of a federal appeals court today is scheduled to consider whether a civil rights-era voting law requires recall petitions to be distributed in multiple languages so non-English-speaking voters can understand them.
      The en banc panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in a case brought by vote...

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