Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 22:00:49 -0700

From: Gail Stygall stygall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]U.WASHINGTON.EDU

Subject: Re: English-only



Then you are perhaps unaware of the deluge of litigation on just such

matters after California passed its ELA in 1986, cases such as Asian

Business Owners Assn. vs. City of Pomono? That case (and there were

plenty of similar cases) contested the city requirement that owners of

various businesses, specifically those having bilingual customers, make

sure that the English on their signs was bigger than the Chinese or

Vietnamese. These were, needless to say, successful businesses. The

business owners won on First Amendment grounds if I remember correctly.

So perhaps we could say that Californians making signs must have higher

degrees in the arcana of language law?



Having vacationed in Vancouver this summer, I found the English-French

combination a welcome recognition of historical and contemporary

diversity.

Cheers,

Gail



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Gail Stygall stygall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]u.washington.edu (206) 685-2384

English, Box 354330, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-4330

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