In 1991, Dora Ornelas went to the Yakima County Courthouse looking for a part-time job during what she thought was going to be a brief time in Yakima. Since then, Ornelas has become a full-time ...
Elizabeth Barrios has had a life-long passion for helping others. It's how she was raised. As the daughter of Christian missionaries, Barrios, 32, grew up in Mexico. She and her family moved to ...
About half of New Yorkers speak a language other than English at home. Twenty-five percent of them, or about 1.8 million people, are not fluent in English and have limited English proficiency (LEP), ...
Federal law enforcement began investigating California’s courts seven years ago after receiving complaints that two Korean-speaking women in Los Angeles had been denied court interpreters. Courts in ...
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” – Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury vs. Madison, U.S. Supreme Court (1803). City and county officials ...
Per diem court interpreters in Massachusetts say they haven’t had a cost of living adjustment in 17 years and after hearing what they say is silence from officials, plan to walk out next month. An ...
A federal appeals court in Denver is considering a controversial question: Does a “bump stock” — a firearm add-on that allows bullets to be fired in rapid succession — turn an ordinary rifle into an ...