Federal Deception Law: 12.4.3.2 Impact of English-Only and English Official Language Laws
Many states have laws that declare English to be the “official language,” but these laws do not conflict with state statutes that require documents to be translated into a second language.81 However, several states have passed “English-only” laws,82 which raise more substantial issues regarding their relationship to state laws that require use of another language.83 Nonetheless, because the statutes requiring translation of certain documents