Monday, April 11, 2011  Boalties in the News  The Ninth Circuit
just handed down a precedential opinion affirming the
preliminary injunction against several sections of SB 1070, the
Arizona Immigration Law.  Judge Richard Paez, a Boalt alumnus
and Judge John T. Noonan, a long-time Boalt professor formed the
majority, while Judge Bea (Stanford!!!) dissented.   The line
that grabbed my attention was in Judge Noonan's concurrance:
That the movement of the people of one nation into the
boundaries of another nation is a matter of national security is
scarcely a doubtful or debatable matter. Almost everyone is
familiar with how the movement of the Angles and the Saxons into
Roman Britain transformed that country. Touche.  It looks like
barring a cert grant from the SCOTUS, the key parts of the AZ
law are dead letter.    Anonymous Anonymous said...  Judge
Noonan (b. 1926) thinks the immigration example "almost
everyone" will be familiar with is the colonization of England
by German tribes 1500 years ago? Awesome. No