DALLAS—A Dallas suburb can't enforce a law that bans immigrants
in the United States without legal permission from renting
apartments, a federal appeals court said Monday. It's the latest
ruling on a series of laws that local governments have passed
targeting immigration.  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
said the Farmers Branch ordinance encroached on authority that
belongs to the federal government, and called multiple parts of
it unconstitutional. The appeals court relied heavily on the
U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year that struck down parts
of Arizona's immigration law.  "We conclude that enforcement of
the ordinance conflicts with federal law," the opinion said.
The suburb's law would have required all renters to obtain
licenses. The city's building inspector would check an
immigrant's status and deny licenses to anyone in the country
without permission, and landlords who allowed immigrants without
permits would have faced fines or revocations of their renters'
licenses.   The ordinance has