Martha Sandoval was the Mexican immigrant who wanted to take the licensing test in Spanish along with several others. But the Court said that it could find no language in the text of Title 6 that would give private individuals that right to sue. No, they didn't. This really was not a decision on the legality or the constitutionality of English- only policies. This just had to do with whether you or I can bring a private suit to enforce title 6.
Individuals still do have a right to enforce that bar in court.
That's the key thing because intentional discrimination is very hard to prove today. You have to show motive by the person or the entity that's discriminating. But to show that some policy or program has a discriminatory impact is a little easier to do. Justice Stevens in his dissent wrote a very toughly worded dissent. He said that today's decision was hostile to decades of settled expectations.