San Francisco–(ENEWSPF)–October 15, 2014. The en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today struck down Proposition 100, an Arizona state constitutional amendment that barred state judges from even considering bail for criminal defendants suspected of being undocumented immigrants. Today’s decision by a 9-2 majority of the en banc panel supersedes an earlier ruling by a three-judge panel of the Court that upheld the controversial Arizona law. The law had been in effect in Arizona since 2006 and was challenged by the ACLU in 2008.
