Susan Bolton is the judge for the law suits filed against SB1070.
She has been called "no-nonsense" and "impeccable."
The first few of the federal lawsuits over Senate Bill 1070 and by random drawing were assigned to Bolton. There are now seven. All claim the law improperly pre-empts federal law. All will be heard by Bolton.
Coldblue steele provided link for pdf..decision
http://www.abc15.com/...
PHOENIX - A judge has blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona's new immigration law from taking effect Thursday, handing a major legal victory to opponents of the crackdown. The law will still take effect Thursday, but without many of the provisions that angered opponents -- including sections that required officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws.
The judge also put on hold a part of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton put those controversial sections on hold until the courts resolve the issues.
http://azdailysun.com/...
As part of that determination, the judge needs to make at least a preliminary decision on whether the provisions of the law are constitutional. If she believes some sections are not legal -- and if she determines there the harms to some if the law is allowed to proceed are sufficient -- then she will place the law on "hold" until there can be a full hearing on its legality.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/...
Although lawyers for the ACLU, MALDEF, and finally the U.S. Department of Justice argued in separate hearings that the law must be taken as a whole, Bolton kept directing them to the specifics of certain provisions.
"You're not asking me to do that?" Bolton asked ACLU attorney Omar Jadwat at one point in the morning hearing on the ACLU/MALDEF suit about his request that she enjoin 1070 in its entirety.
"Shouldn't we be talking about it section by section?" she continued. "And talk about what you want me to enjoin?"
She cited the severability clause in the statute, which would allow her to partially enjoin, while leaving the rest of the statute in force.
Jadwat replied that the ACLU and others bringing the suit would be happy if she enjoined "the operative parts of the law...[which] would give us the same relief." Jadwat listed several provisions the plaintiffs want put on pause with a preliminary injunction.
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Cosmic Debris provided this (blockquote below)
Sections barred from being enforced include:
• Requiring a police officer to make a reasonable attempt to check the immigration status of those they have stopped;
• Making it a violation of Arizona law for anyone not a citizen to fail to carry documenation;
• Creating a new state crime for trying to secure work while not a legal resident;
• Allowing police to make warrantless arrests if there is a belief the person has committed an offense that allows them to be removed from the United States.
Sections not challenged by the Obama Administration
That includes:
• Requiring state officials to work with the federal government
regarding illegal immigrants;
• Allowing Arizona residents to file suit against any agency,
official, city or county for adopting policies that restrict the
ability of workers to enforce federal immigration law ``to less
than the full extent permitted by federal law.''
ariseatex provided this link for celebration pics