<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's a new post on the <a href="http://www.illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage">Web of Language:</a><div><br></div><div>Supreme Court strikes a blow against minority language rights</div><div><br></div><div>In a blow against minority language rights, the Supreme Court has ruled in the case of Horne v. 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