Published: 12.13.2007

Tuesday hearing set on move to block employer sanctions law
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A federal judge says he'll rule quickly on a request to at least temporarily block implementation of Arizona's new law to suspend or revoke licenses of businesses that knowingly employ illegal immigrants.
U.S. District Neil Wake scheduled a hearing for Tuesday on the challengers' request for a temporary restraining order and also to set a "prompt and fair schedule" for a longer injunction that the challengers also want.
But Wake also said his decision on the request for a temporary order may be influenced by the challengers' tardiness in adding the state's 15 county attorneys to the lawsuit.
Wake last Friday dismissed the original lawsuit because it didn't name the county attorneys as defendants as well as state officials. The challengers refiled the lawsuit Sunday to add the county attorneys.
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