Lawsuit on language rights</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Lawsuit on language rights"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Lawsuit,on,language,rights"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">22-04-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Lawsuit on language rights</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_QZavOlRtXbeXbYKwVkSP_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">New York, USA (Newsday): An immigrants' advocacy group asked the state on Thursday to take legal action against four metropolitan area hospitals for failing to provide interpreters for emergency patients. The legal issue is whether hospitals violate federal and state laws mandating equal access to services by providing no capable interpreters. There were documented cases of doctors using cab drivers or children to interpret vital medical information for patients with limited English ability <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--hospital-language0421apr21,0,5986918.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork" target="blank">www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--hospital-language0421apr21,0,5986918.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show