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BABBITT v. FARM WORKERS

No. 78-225.

442 U.S. 289 (1979)

BABBITT, GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA, ET AL. v. UNITED FARM WORKERS NATIONAL UNION ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rex E. Lee, Special Assistant Attorney General of Arizona, argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Robert Corbin, Attorney General, John A. LaSota, Jr., former Attorney General, Charles E. Jones, Jon L. Kyl, and John B. Weldon, Jr.

Jerome Cohen argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief was James Rutkowski.*

Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by Mark D. Rosenbaum, Fred Okrand, and Dennis M. Perluss for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California et al.; and by J. Albert Woll and Laurence Gold for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Marvin J. Brenner and Ellen Lake filed a brief for the Agricultural Labor Relations Board as amicus curiae.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case we review the decision of a three-judge District Court setting aside as unconstitutional Arizona's farm labor statute. The District Court perceived particular constitutional problems with five provisions of the Act; deeming these provisions inseparable from the remainder of the Act, the court declared the entire Act unconstitutional and enjoined its enforcement. We conclude that the challenges to two...

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