Move over, Abe Lincoln, Clarence Darrow, Nelson Mandela, Thurgood Marshall. Sandra Day O'Connor. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mohandas Gandhi.
Please make room for my Late Uncle Oz, and Godfather, Osvaldo N Soto. The Miami Herald, reports that a new courthouse will be named for the Cuban-American who fought Miami-Dade’s English-only law.
Ma late father’s youngest brother was also the founding father of SALAD Spanish American League Against Discrimination.
Miami-Dade’s new civil courthouse will be named after Osvaldo Soto, a Cuban American lawyer who led the fight in the 1980s to repeal the county’s English-only ordinance that, among other things, stopped clerks from conducting courthouse weddings in Spanish.
County commissioners unanimously approved naming the downtown building after Soto, who died in 2021 at the age of 91. A crusader for Hispanic rights amid a backlash against Cuban migrants fleeing to Miami during the 1980 Mariel boat lift, Soto pushed county leaders to accept the booming immigrant population as a vital part of the community.
http://www.santarosa-lawyer.com/15-most-famous-american-lawyers/#:~:tex….
