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Appeals Court Rules Against Arizona Law Print E-mail
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 9:31 am

affiliate_image_what_happens_in_az.jpgPHOENIX — The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against the State of Arizona on Monday and let stand a lower court decision blocking the most contentious parts of the state’s immigration law from going into effect...

Critics of the law, who have held protests and filed lawsuits to strike it down, were thrilled with the ruling.

“One of the reasons we have a judiciary is so that mobs don’t rule, so that when the Legislature oversteps its bounds there is someone to stop them,” said Omar Jadwat of the A.C.L.U. Immigrants’ Rights Project.

Read the Full NYT story here.

 
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