This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

California Supreme Court

Mar. 7, 2015

New associate justice to lead language access task force

Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye on Thursday named 15 judicial officers and others, led by Associate Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, to a newly formed Language Access Task Force.

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Hoping to ease the verbal confusion plaguing California courtrooms in a linguistically diverse state where more than 200 tongues are spoken, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye on Thursday named 15 judicial officers and others to a newly formed Language Access Task Force. Chairing the group will be Associate Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, a former international studies scholar raised speaking Spanish and English in the border t...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up