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Published on October 28, 1999
Dallas Observer staff writer Christine Biederman has been named a winner of the Dallas Bar Association's Stephen H. Philbin Award for her February 25, 1999, story "Lost in translation," which details the controversy surrounding Spanish-language interpreters in the Dallas County courts.
Biederman uncovered evidence that the county's main contractor for court interpreters, Tizoc's Language Consultants, was providing inferior service and, in some instances, double-billing the county for its work. She found that the company frequently employs improperly trained interpreters whose mistakes have resulted in several mistrials. She also reported on a political battle between judges and county commissioners that resulted in the county's underpaying more qualified interpreters.
Biederman won the Philbin award, which recognizes excellence in legal reporting, in the newspaper feature story category.
Other winners included Mark Curriden, a legal-affairs writer for The Dallas Morning News, who won the Philbin Awards' grand prize for his reporting on the controversy surrounding the billion-dollar legal fees in Texas' case against the tobacco manufacturers.
