A proposed rule change would end fee reimbursement for interpreters in criminal cases — we argued it should cover every case, because equal access to courts is the court's job, not the litigant's.
Street Democracy argued that the proposed amendment to MCR 1.111, which would prohibit the reimbursement of the court’s costs for language interpreter services in criminal cases, should go further and eliminate any reimbursement for interpreter services in all cases because its obligation of the court, not the litigant, to ensure equal access to the courts.
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