Arpaio case: Latinos allowed to join class-action suit

[Ptah]

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/12/23/20111223arpaio-case-judge-rules-destroyed-documents.html

Every Latino driver and passenger who have been stopped, detained, questioned or searched by the
Maricopa County Sheriff's since January 2007 can join a racial-profiling lawsuit that was expanded
to class-action status after a federal judge's ruling on Friday.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Murray Snow will also prevent sheriff's deputies from relying on a
single element of the state's human-smuggling statute, such as the belief that someone is unlawfully
present in the United States, if deputies want to launch into investigations related to human smuggling.

Attorneys for the Sheriff's Office and the plaintiffs who brought the racial-profiling lawsuit were still
digesting the 40-page ruling Friday afternoon and could not yet comment.
Snow's order was handed down hours after he ruled that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's destruction of documents
related to the long-standing racial profiling case will come into play in a trial.

Snow held a two-hour hearing on Thursday where he weighed motions from the Sheriff's Office and the
plaintiffs to resolve the case with a summary judgment, but Snow made multiple statements during the
hearing about issues that could come up in a trial setting.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. another nail in the coffin of sheriff Joe's career!

[Downwinder]

2. How much has Sheriff Joe cost taxpayers in Court awards so far?

[Turbineguy]

3. Let's see if his dickhead supporters ante up

to pay his legal costs.

[Downwinder]

4. Put a separate listing on their Property Tax statements.

"Joe's defense fund"

[Tansy_Gold]

5. I'm so glad I moved out of Maricopa County! Oh, wait. . . .

I moved into Pinal, where we have Paul Babeu, who is Joe Arpaio with a smaller budget.


HELP!!!!

[UTUSN]

6. R#16 & K n/t