Judge Rejects Challenges to Arizona Lawsuit
The Huffington Post reports:
A federal judge has dismissed challenges to a civil rights lawsuit against Arizona's controversial immigration law, allowing the action against the recently enacted law to proceed.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled Friday that motions filed by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu that were designed to force the dismissal of lawsuits against the enacted immigration enforcement measure were not sufficient.
"While Governor Brewer correctly points out that, for the most part, the organizational plaintiffs' allegations involve threats of future harm, the threat of future harm is sufficiently imminent," Bolton ruled, according to em>Courthouse News Service<.
In her decision, Bolton also found that "race, alienage, or national origin discrimination was a motivating factor in the enactment of S.B. 1070," and maintained that the lawsuit was appropriate due to the "alleged harm to the organizational plaintiffs will occur if S.B. 1070 goes into effect, regardless of how it is enforced or applied."
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