AZ Immigration Law First Court Hearing

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton will hear arguments on Thursday, July 15, 2010, over whether Arizona’s new immigration law should take affect later this month. This will be the first major hearing in one of seven challenges to the strict law. Arguments will include Governor Jan Brewers’ request to dismiss the challenge filed by Arizona’s police Officer David Salgado and the statewide nonprofit group Chicanos Por La Causa. Brewer’s attorneys ask to have the officer’s lawsuit thrown out because his arguments are based on speculation rather than a real threat of harm from enforcing the new law. Similar hearings for the lawsuits filed by the federal government and civil groups will be heard on July 22, 2010. Other challenges to the law were filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, civil rights organizations, clergy groups, a researcher from Washington and a Tucson police officer.

To read the entire article, please visit:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100715/ap_on_re_us/us_immigration_arizona_lawsuit_6

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