Medical translation lawsuit refused</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Medical translation lawsuit refused"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Medical,translation,lawsuit,refused"> </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">09-03-2005</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>Medical translation lawsuit refused</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_MBbvO2MjzeYSKreGAu7R_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">California, USA (Seattle Post Intelligencer): A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Clinton administration policy that requires public services hospitals to provide translators if required for patients. <br>In a ruling announced Tuesday, Judge Barry Moskowitz said the plaintiffs did not demonstrate how they were harmed by the policy, which applies to all doctors and hospitals that receive federal funding. <br>The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was filed in August by several physicians and a group supporting English as the official language in the US. They contended the policy is an expensive and intrusive burden on doctors and limits their right of free speech. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1155&slug=Medicine%20English%20Translation " target="blank">seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1155&slug=Medicine%20English%20Translation </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