{"id":1855,"date":"2014-04-28T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/?post_type=policy&#038;p=1855"},"modified":"2026-04-28T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:33:07","slug":"f-a-c-e-v-hawaii-dept-of-transportation-no-13-cv-00450-d-haw-2015","status":"publish","type":"policy","link":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/policy\/f-a-c-e-v-hawaii-dept-of-transportation-no-13-cv-00450-d-haw-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"F.A.C.E. v. Hawaii Dept. of Transportation, No. 13-CV-00450 (D.Haw. 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plaintiffs Faith Action for Community Equity (F.A.C.E.) and Tochiro Kochiro Kovac <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/case-document\/file\/937876\/dl?inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed a class action lawsuit against the State of Hawaii and the Hawaii Dept. of Transportation (HDOT)<\/a>. Plaintiffs allege that HDOT\u2019s policy of offering the driver\u2019s examination in English only violates the 14th Amendment\u2019s equal protection guarantee and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act\u2019s prohibition against disparate treatment in federally funded programs. F.A.C.E. is a faith-based grassroots nonprofit organization that advocates for recent Hawaiian immigrants. Tochiro Kovac is a speaker of Chuukese and has been unable to pass a written driver\u2019s examination due to language barriers. Defendants filed motions to dismiss and also argued the plaintiffs\u2019 claim for injunctive relief because HDOT voluntarily began offering the written portion of the driver\u2019s examination in multiple languages. The court denied both motions to dismiss and concluded that the defendants\u2019 voluntary cessation of the English-only policy didn\u2019t render the plaintiffs\u2019 claims moot.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"policy_whats_new_category":[82],"class_list":["post-1855","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\/1855","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy\/1855\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"policy_whats_new_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncfla.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy_whats_new_category?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}