CITY OF NEW YORK v. U.S.

Docket No. 97-6182.

179 F.3d 29 (1999)

The CITY OF NEW YORK and Rudolph Giuliani, as Mayor of the City of New York, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The UNITED STATES of America and Janet Reno, as Attorney General of the United States, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 27, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah R. Douglas, Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York (Jeffrey D. Friedlander, Acting Corporation Counsel, and Kristin M. Helmers, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), New York, New York, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Martin J. Siegel, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney, and Sara L. Shudofsky, Assistant United States Attorney, of counsel), New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees.

Helaine Barnett, The Legal Aid Society (Scott A. Rosenberg, Hwan-Hui Helen Lee, of counsel), New York, New York, for Amicus Curiae The Legal Aid Society in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Before: WINTER, Chief Judge, WALKER, and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.


WINTER, Chief Judge:

The City of New York prohibits its employees from voluntarily providing federal immigration authorities with information concerning the immigration status of any alien. In 1996, Congress passed Section 434 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ("Welfare Reform Act"), Pub.L. No. 104-193, 110 Stat. 2105 (1996), and Section 642 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 ("Immigration...

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