Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona (1996)

Docket
95-974
Decided
1996-01-01

Summary

Question: Was a challenge to a state's efforts to make English its official language a justiciable controversy after the state employee who mounted the challenge left her government job? Conclusion: No. In a unanimous decision, announced by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court held that the dispute was moot due to the previous resignation of Yniguez. The Court did not rule on the constitutionality of the article.

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