NY Court Interpreters’ Pay Bias Case Tossed Days After Argument

Court interpreters’ lawsuit alleging the New York state court system paid them discriminatory wages was dismissed because of state immunity from lawsuits in federal court.

The court interpreter plaintiffs have 30 days to to add a state official as a defendant in their complaint, rather than just naming the state agency, which would allow the court to get around the New York State Unified Court System’s sovereign immunity argument and proceed with the case, Southern District of New York Judge Ronnie Abrams said in her decision Thursday. Sovereign immunity means the state can’t be sued in a federal court ...