{"id":1816,"date":"2003-07-23T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2003-07-23T21:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/?post_type=policy&#038;p=1816"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:13:15","slug":"almendares-v-palmer-284-f-supp-2d-799-n-d-ohio-2003","status":"publish","type":"policy","link":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/policy\/almendares-v-palmer-284-f-supp-2d-799-n-d-ohio-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Almendares v. Palmer, 284 F. Supp.2d 799 (N.D. Ohio 2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spanish-speaking recipients of food stamps <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/district-courts\/FSupp2\/284\/799\/2534022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brought a class action lawsuit<\/a> against the Lucas County Dept. of Jobs and Family Services and the Ohio Dept. of Job and Family Services. Plaintiffs alleged defendants violated federal and state law by failing to ensure adequate provision of bilingual services under the state food stamp program and intentionally discriminated against them based on national origin. Plaintiffs alleged that notices, applications, and written communications from the departments were almost exclusively in English and the departments lacked employees who could communicate in Spanish. The plaintiffs asserted their claims under 42 U.S.C. Sect. 1983 and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The court denied the defendants\u2019 motion to dismiss the Title VI claims.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"policy_whats_new_category":[82],"class_list":["post-1816","policy","type-policy","status-publish","hentry","policy_whats_new_category-case-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy\/1816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/policy"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy\/1816\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"policy_whats_new_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy_whats_new_category?post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}