July 28, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2010 Contact: Leonie Campbell-Williams (202) 296-2300 ext. 135 lcampbell@advancingequality.org PHOENIX- Ensuring that Arizona law enforcement will not be required to demand papers from people they stop who they suspect are unlawfully present in the U.S., a federal court today blocked the most egregious provisions of Arizona's racial profiling law, known as SB 1070, pending a final court ruling on its constitutionality. The Asian American Justice Center, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California and a coalition of civil rights groups filed a lawsuit challenging the discriminatory measure, scheduled to take effect tomorrow, and asked the court to temporarily block several provisions of the law while the case is litigated. We are very pleased that...

Source: Asian American Justice Center