Staff Report
Alabama and Georgia Thursday asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop proceedings against their state immigration laws while the U.S. Supreme Court reviews challenges to Arizona’s immigration statute.
Alabama argues that the Arizona judgment will likely be “the definitive decision on many of the matters at issue in these cases” and would likely be in hand by July.
“It would not be in the interests of judicial economy for the parties and amici (briefs submitted as friends of the court) to supply three more rounds of briefing on these issues to this Court (the Appellees’ briefs, the Appellants’ replies, and the Cross-Appellants’ replies in the cross-repeals), only to have their briefs become obsolete this summer,” says the motion, written by the Alabama attorney general’s office.
