Hi David!<div><br></div><div>Maybe not what you're looking for, but there's an interesting court case going on in Alberta right now re: a unilingual traffic ticket. Quebec probably has some interesting cases...</div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; ">Check out this Globe and Mail article "Supreme Court backs Alberta man's 8-year fight over unilingual traffic ticket" at<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/supreme-court-backs-alberta-mans-8-year-fight-over-unilingual-traffic-ticket/article1894370/?service=email&utm_source=Shared+Article+Sent+to+User&utm_medium=E-mail%3A+Newsletters+%2F+E-Blasts+%2F+etc.&utm_content=1894370&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/supreme-court-backs-alberta-mans-8-year-fight-over-unilingual-traffic-ticket/article1894370/?service=email&utm_source=Shared+Article+Sent+to+User&utm_medium=E-mail%3A+Newsletters+%2F+E-Blasts+%2F+etc.&utm_content=1894370&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links</a>.</pre>
<pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; ">Hope all's well with you!</pre><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; ">Cynthia</pre></span><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/3 Johnson, David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnsondc@wsu.edu">johnsondc@wsu.edu</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Language policy is often influenced by court cases and decisions. For example, the Lau decision opened space for multilingual education in the U.S. What are some non-U.S. examples of legal decisions that led to monolingual policies and practices and/or language discrimination? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">David Cassels Johnson, Ph.D.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Assistant Professor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Language and Literacy Education</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Department of Teaching and Learning</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">College of Education, PO Box 642132</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Washington State University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Pullman, WA 99164-2132</span></p>
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