The Region - News from April 28, 1985

The Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission may hold hearings in a case in which three Municipal judges ordered their employees to speak only English while at work, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has decided. The three Southeast Municipal judges who issued the disputed rule last year contend that the commission has no jurisdiction in the case. Superior Court Judge Irving Shimer called the proposed commission hearings “a dumb political waste of time” but said he did not want to bar them. On Monday, a U.S. District Court is expected to consider a request for a related injunction from a court employee who claims that the judges’ rule is discriminatory.