Issues
Official English
Bilingual Education
English on the Job
Citizenship and
   Immigration
Bilingual Ballots
Puerto Rican
    Statehood
Ending E.O. 13166,
   the "Multilingual
   Mandate"

Resources
Model official
   English statute
Backgrounders
Pending legislation
Census 2000 data
Myths & Facts
Poll Data

Contact us:
1601 N. Kent St.
Suite 1100
Arlington, VA
22209
ph: (703)816-8821

ProEnglish
News Release
Jan. 16, 2001

(Washington, D.C.) The head of ProEnglish, the nation's leading defender of official English laws in court, urged the Supreme Court to uphold Alabama's official English law in the case of Alexander v. Sandoval [no. 99-1908] which was heard by the high court today.

ProEnglish executive director K.C. McAlpin said, "By creating a new right to government services in any language demanded, the lower court decision in Sandoval threatens to unleash the kind of chaos and conflict over language that, until now, the United States has been fortunate to avoid."  He added, "It is exactly the kind of disaster the citizens of Alabama meant to prevent when they voted 9-1 for a law making English their official language." 

ProEnglish was joined by two other organizations and fourteen members of Congress in a friend-of-the court brief supporting Alabama's appeal before the Supreme Court.

Background information about this case including a copy of the brief and information about ProEnglish can be accessed over the Internet at: www.proenglish.org.
____   
Mr. McAlpin is available for interviews on official English and related issues.
Call (703) 816-8821 to arrange an interview.