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Update: Supreme Court Strikes Down Some Key Provisions of Arizonas Immigration Law
This is a short update to previous Slaw posts on Arizona?s 2010 controversial new anti-immigration measures. After examining whether the law unconstitutionally invaded the federal government's exclusive prerogative to set immigration policy, on Monday June 25, 2012, the U...

CHANGE: Supreme Court Strikes Down Bulk of Arizona Immigration Law. UPDATE: Supreme Court uphol
CHANGE: Supreme Court Strikes Down Bulk of Arizona Immigration Law. UPDATE: Supreme Court upholds key immigration status check provision of Arizona law.

Court strikes down much of Arizona immigration law
This morning, the Court handed down its decision in Arizona v. United States, the case involving Arizona?s attempt to supplement federal immigration enforcement through several state law measures...

Arizona Appeals Immigration Ruling to Supreme Court
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has asked the Supreme Court to lift an injunction that halted the most controversial sections of her state’s new immigration law from taking effect. Brewer seeks a ruling that could free Arizona and other states to invoke aggressive enforcement against illegal immigrants, according to a Los Angeles Times article...

WHATS THE BEST POSITION FOR CANDIDATES TO TAKE ON ARIZONAS IMMIGRATION LAW The Obama administr
WHAT’S THE BEST POSITION FOR CANDIDATES TO TAKE ON ARIZONA’S IMMIGRATION LAW? The Obama administration fought this law, in what culminated in an embarrassing performance at the Supreme Court this week...

Arizona Immigration Law May Move to Supreme Court
The Arizona Immigration Law may be headed to the highest court in the nation. Arizona is considering the act of asking the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm the state has a right to enforce the most contested parts of its illegal-immigration law, Gov...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Immigration Related Employment Discrimination & Unfair Labor Practices
What to do about employers who discriminate because of national origin

Citizenship and Immigration Canada
allegedly overcharged for immigration application fees.

Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Division of Immigration Health Services
allegedly drugged deported immigrants with sedatives.

Fume Event
Leaves Airline Attendant Sick

Microsoft
Settles with Arizona for $4.4 Million

Immigration Fees
Nationwide Class Action Gets Green Light

Cilantro
Recalled in 5 States