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Category: Courts


Federal Judge Enjoins Arizona Sheriff’s Office From Immigration Enforcement, Racial Profiling

In Melendres v. Arpaio (PDF, 142-pages), G. Murray Snow, a federal judge for the District of Arizona, ruled on May 24, 2013, that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO), under Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, engaged in impermissible racial profiling and enforcement of federal immigration law by singling out Latino day laborers and others. Patrols by MCSO… Read More

Put Up or Shut Up: EEOC Ordered To Reveal Immigration Status or Abandon Claims

On May 7, 2012, Judge Lonny R. Suko of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington told the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that it had to either reveal the immigration status of women it is representing in a harassment lawsuit or abandon recovery of monetary damages for the claimants who will… Read More

Justice Dept. Sues Utah Over Immigration Law

On November 22, 2011, the Department of Justice and several other agencies filed suit against Utah’s new immigration-related law, after similar recent law suits against Arizona, Alabama, and South Carolina’s laws. In a complaint filed in the District of Utah, the Department argued that several provisions of Utah’s H.B. 497, enacted on March 15, 2011,… Read More

District Court Finds NY Education Law Limiting Pharmacist Licenses to U.S. Citizens, LPRs Unconstitutional

The U.S. District Court for New York ruled in a consolidated case (PDF) on September 29, 2010, that a New York education law was unconstitutional because it violated the plaintiffs’ rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and encroached on federal immigration authority. The plaintiffs were 26 otherwise qualified pharmacists with temporary… Read More

Seventh Circuit Affirms Time Limits on Labor Certifications

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed (PDF) a Department of Labor amended regulation setting time limits on grants of labor certification. Specifically, the amended regulation states that an approved permanent labor certification granted on or after July 16, 2007, expires if not filed in support of an I-140 petition within 180… Read More