Speaking in tongues: whose rights at stake? Yniguez v. Arizonans for Official English, 69 F.3d 920 (9th Cir. 1995) (en banc)

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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in Yniguez v. Arizonans for Official English that Amendment XXVIII of the state constitution violated the free speech rights of a bilingual public employee by insisting that she only speak in English to non-English-speaking clients. The Court decided the case by characterizing the employee's speech as public concern speech, entitled to greater protection. Instead of expanding free speech rights of employees, the court should have focused on the denial of access to the government that results as a result of an artificial language barrier.

United States, Cases, Arizona, Public employees, Government employees, English-only movement

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Speech, privacy, and the power of the purse: lessons from the abortion "gag rule" case

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The Supreme Court has declared that the US government's ban on abortion counselling at all federally-funded family planning conflicts does not violate privacy rights or the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech. Rust v. Sullivan concerned the Health and Human Services Department's regulations forbidding abortion referrals at any clinic to which it gives funds. The ruling probably means that future disputes over government-supported medical programs will be settled politically rather than judicially.

Interpretation and construction, Constitutional law, Constitutional interpretation, Public health law, Abortion counseling

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Financing universal health insurance: taxes, premiums, and the lessons of social insurance

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Social insurance might allay the American public's distaste for higher taxes that has so far prevented the enactment of universal health insurance. The success of social insurance in Germany, Britain and other countries shows that such programs can be both mandatory like taxes and focused on health care like insurance premiums. Americans would be likely to support social insurance once they are convinced that it is more like social security than like welfare.

Finance, International aspects, Social security, National health insurance

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