Arizona farm employers await judge’s ruling in sanctions law challenge

Move over television’s Judge Judy. Arizona employers including those agriculturally-based are embroiled in a real life courtroom nail biter that could either push Arizona employers out of the state or negate or scale back the most aggressive employer sanction’s law in the nation before it even takes effect.

In mid-November, U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake was scheduled to hear oral arguments in a legal challenge to the Legal Arizona Worker Law slated to take effect in Arizona on Jan. 1, 2008. Judge Wake’s decision is expected before the end of December.

The legal challenge includes 12 plaintiffs including the Arizona Farm Bureau (AZFB), the Arizona and U.S. Chambers of Commerce, Arizona Contractors Inc., Employers for Immigration Reform Inc., Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc. and others.”*

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