Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to Arizona Immigration Bail Ruling

June 1, 2015 1:15 pm

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it would not hear a challenge to an appeals court ruling striking down Arizona's Proposition 100, which denied bail to people accused of being undocumented immigrants. The ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û had successfully challenged the law as unconstitutional.

Cecillia Wang, director of the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û's Immigrants' Rights Project, said:

"Today's order from the Supreme Court lets our victory over Proposition 100 stand. Arizona officials who tried to strip people of a bail hearing and the presumption of innocence have reached the end of the road. Laws that are driven by fear-mongering rather than facts are bad policy and violate everyone's civil liberties."

The order is at: /legal-document/lopez-valenzuela-v-maricopa-county-supreme-court-denial-cert-petition

More information about this case, Lopez-Valenzuela v. Maricopa County, is at: /cases/immigrants-rights/lopez-valenzuela-et-al-v-maricopa-county-et-al


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