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Court Access for Spanish Speakers

Loaded on Oct. 15, 1993 published in Prison Legal News October, 1993, page 3
Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Court Access, Mootness, Interpreters. Location: New Jersey.
This is a § 1983 access to the courts case filed by a county jail prisoner who was not conversant in the English language. The plaintiff, Acevedo, claimed that his jailers denied him meaningful access to the courts by failing to maintain an adequate law library and to provide a ...

 

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