Immigration
Oct. 5, 2010
Supreme Court Has Opportunity to Define State Powers Over Immigration Issues
Whether Arizona's controversial immigration statutes will survive pre-emption is now a question for the Supreme Court, by Steve Wiman of Nossaman.
Much like politics, litigation sometimes makes strange bedfellows. This term, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral argument in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting. The principal question presented is whether federal immigration law pre-empts an Arizona law, the Legal Arizona Workers Act, which sanctions Arizona employers with loss of "business licenses" for "knowingly" or "intentionally" employing...
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