Municipal Court of the Southeast Judicial District v. Gutierrez

How later courts describe this case

• noting that “the cultural identity of certain minority groups is tied to the use of their ■ primary tongue,” and that “rules which have a negative effect on .... non-English speakers, may be mere pretexts for intentional national origin discrimination”
• rejecting as a valid state interest the defendants’ claim that “the United States is an English-speaking country” and holding that “[t]hat self-evident fact provides little support for the restrictive [English-only] rule”
• claim of first amendment violation