21.1741, Qs: Judicial Rulings Involving Accent Discrimination

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Subject: 21.1741, Qs: Judicial Rulings Involving Accent Discrimination

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Date: 04-Apr-2010
From: Deborah Morales < dlmorale at syr.edu >
Subject: Judicial Rulings Involving Accent Discrimination
 

	
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:34:53
From: Deborah Morales [dlmorale at syr.edu]
Subject: Judicial Rulings Involving Accent Discrimination

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I am a graduate student at Syracuse University, and for my class in 
Bilingualism/Multiculturalism my research project is to review judicial 
cases involving outcomes that were influenced by language issues 
since 2004 and analyze the judicial justifications. If you can suggest 
how to locate this type of case, it would be very helpful. 

The primary focus of my project will be to review case histories where
the outcomes have hinged upon language issues. Discrimination is 
expected to be the legal category associated with the cases and laws 
protecting National Origin Discrimination are likely to be those most 
frequently referenced. My overall goal will be that of analyzing judicial 
rulings since 2004 and comparing them with cases from between 1964 
and 2003 to detect whether the justifications utilized by judges 
previously in passing down their decisions continues, or if perhaps a 
paradigm shift may have appeared on the horizon and/or whether 
judges understanding of language issues have succumbed to any 
linguistically based enlightenment. 

It would be most helpful to obtain the judges' explanation of decisions 
made. 

Thanks for your help,
Deborah Morales 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics




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