SANDOVAL v. HAGAN

No. 98-6598.

197 F.3d 484 (1999)

Martha SANDOVAL, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. L.N. HAGAN, in his official capacity as Director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, and Alabama Department of Public Safety, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 30, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Park, Montgomery, AL, for Defendants-Appellants.

J. Richard Cohen, Rhonda Brownstein, Marcia Bull Stadeker, Montgomery, AL, Shannon Holliday, ACLU, Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Seth M. Galanter, Civil Rights Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for Amicus USA.

Before HULL and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and RONEY, Senior Circuit Judge.


MARCUS, Circuit Judge:

Martha Sandoval, on her own behalf and as the representative of others similarly situated ("Appellees"), filed this lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Public Safety and its director L.N. Hagan, in his official capacity ("Appellants"), challenging the lawfulness of the Department of Public Safety's ("Department") official policy of administering its driver's license examination only in the English language. Appellees specifically alleged...

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