Commonwealth v. Olivo

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Spanish-speaking defendant charged with violating order of housing department not denied due process because order was only in English
• notice to non-english speaker sufficient to put reasonable person on notice that further inquiry was required
• form of notice provided must be reasonably calculated to give actual notice of proceedings and opportunity to be heard
• \The word 'or' is given a disjunctive meaning unless the context and the main purpose of all the words demand otherwise\
• notice of facts which would incite person of reasonable prudence to inquiry is notice of all facts which a reasonably diligent inquiry would develop
• “The class burdened, however, is not those of Spanish descent, but those unable to read English. This is not a suspect class.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).