Jesse Choper Explains Significance of California’s Language Freedom Law

San Francisco Chronicle, August 21, 2009 by Wyatt Buchanan
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The protections may be the first of their kind in the country, said Jesse Choper, the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. He said the protection is “not off the wall by any means” and said language can be a source of discrimination that people have limited control over.