Brewer loses appeal of Arizona day-laborer rules
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday upheld an injunction against
another section of SB 1070, the controversial Arizona immigration law.
The injunction was first imposed in February 2012 when a U.S. District Court
judge in Phoenix ruled that statutes prohibiting people from stopping their cars
to hire and pick up day laborers soliciting work are unconstitutional. The 9th Circuit
panel agreed that the statute infringed on the constitutionally guaranteed
right to commercial speech.
“It’s another in a series of defeats for 1070, and it recognizes that the law unconstitutionally
targets the rights of day laborers,” said Omar Jadwat, an attorney for the
American Civil Liberties Union, one of the organizations that brought suit against Arizona.
Whether the state asks for an en banc hearing from a larger group of 9th Circuit judges
or petitions the U.S. Supreme Court remains to be seen.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20130304arizona-immigration-day-laborer-rules-brewer-appeal-ruling.html
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