PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona has dropped an appeal over a federal court’s ruling last year that bars authorities from enforcing the state’s 2005 immigrant smuggling law.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said Friday that his office filed for the dismissal because of “an obligation to be responsible with taxpayer dollars” and it seemed unlikely that the state would win the appeal.
The state’s lawyers had informed U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton in January of their plans to appeal her November decision, which concluded the state law is trumped by federal statutes.
Bolton struck it down as part of the Obama administration’s challenge of Arizona’s landmark 2010 immigration enforcement law.
The dispute over the smuggling law is all that remains of the federal government’s challenge of the 2010 law known as Senate Bill 1070.
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