DeafDigest Mid-Week edition - February 5, 2018
-- deaf attorney wins case in front of Supreme Court justice
Two weeks ago DeafDigest mentioned that deaf attorney John
Stanton was scheduled to argue a case in front of David
Souter, a past Supreme Court justice who is retired but
continues to sit on cases in appelate court. It was
an immigration case where an illegal immigrant was
ordered deported but filed a lawsuit to block it.
Said John:
I'm the first deaf lawyer to argue a case in front of a
Supreme Court justice and win
A picture is at:
http://deafdigest.com/supreme-court-justice-listening-to-deaf-attorney/
-- a deaf commercial in the Super Bowl
All major corporations save their best TV ads for the
Super Bowl. And almost every year there is a deaf-related
ad. There was one - Millicent Simmonds, a deaf child
actress playing the role as a hearing family's deaf
child in the movie - A Quiet Place, a horror film.
-- triple Sign Language
A new play - Salonica - is being featured
at Fringe Festivals in New Zealand. This play
is unusual in that actors will be signing
out in three different sign languages - Serbian
Sign Lanaguage, British Sign Language and
New Zealand Sign Language. Not exactly
sure how it works out especially when it
comes to a fourth language - English, as
voiced by shadow hearing actors. And
why Serbian? Don't know.
Latest deaf jobs - latest update
http://deafdigest.com/category/jobs/
Barry's collections of past articles (with today's update)
-- impossible deaf facts
http://deafdigest.com/collections/barrys-collections/
02/04/18 Blue and Gold editions at:
http://deafdigest.com/newsletters/
