Employer sanctions law upheld by federal appeals court
118 commentsby Mary Jo Pitzl - Sept. 17, 2008 12:33 PM
The Arizona Republic
Arizona's employer-sanctions law was upheld Wednesday by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The three-judge panel ruled that a lower court's determination last year that the policy was not blocked by federal law was correct.

The law has been in force since January, although no prosecutions have yet been made of Arizona employers.
The court noted this in discussing the appeal, saying “we must observe that it is brought against a blank factual background of enforcement and outside the context of any particular case.â€