United States Ninth Circuit

The district court's preliminary injunction enjoining an Arizona statute, which attempts to criminalize the harboring and transporting of unauthorized aliens within the state of Arizona, is affirmed, where: 1) the individual and organizational plaintiffs had standing; 2) the statute as written was void for vagueness under the Due Process Clause; 3) the provision which attempted to criminalize the harboring and transporting of unauthorized aliens was preempted by federal law and thus invalid under the Supremacy Clause; and 4) the district court did not abuse its discretion in holding that plaintiffs established the elements necessary to grant a preliminary injunction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/08/2013
• Published 10/08/2013

Judges

• PAEZ

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel