Certiorari Granted

Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. v. Napolitano, 558 F.3d 856 (9th Cir. 2009), cert. granted sub nom. Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria, (June 28, 2009) (No. 09-115)

This case involves a challenge to the Legal Arizona Workers Act, an Arizona state law prohibiting employers from knowingly or intentionally employing an unauthorized immigrant. The petitioners allege that the Arizona statute is unlawful because it is preempted by federal immigration laws that regulate the employment of non-citizens. The lower courts upheld the statute, finding that it was not preempted by federal law.

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United States v. Flores-Villar, 536 F.3d 990 (9th Cir. Cal. 2008), cert. granted sub nom.,
Flores-Villar v. United States, 2010 U.S. LEXIS 2743 (U.S. Mar. 22, 2010) (09-5801)

The Supreme Court will hear a case that looks to whether two former citizenship provisions in the INA violate equal protection. These sections imposed a five-year residence requirement, after the age of fourteen, on U.S. citizen fathers -- but not on U.S. citizen mothers -- before they may transmit citizenship to a child born out of wedlock abroad to a noncitizen. Read more...