VALLE DEL SOL INC. v. WHITING

No. 12-15688.

709 F.3d 808 (2013)

VALLE DEL SOL INCORPORATED; C.M., a minor; Jose Angel Vargas; Coalicion De Derechos Humanos; United Food and Commercial Workers International Union; Border Action Network; Jim Shee; Luz Santiago; Arizona South Asians for Safe Families; Japanese American Citizens League; Local 5 Service Employees International Union; Southside Presbyterain Church; Muslim American Society; Tonatierra Community Development Institute; Asian Chamber of Commerce of Arizona; Service Employees International Union; Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Pedro Espinoza; Maura Castillo; Maria Morales, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael B. WHITING; Edward G. Rheinheimer; David W. Rozema; Daisy Flores; Kenny Angle; Derek D. Rapier; Sam Vederman; Richard M. Romley; Matthew J. Smith; Bradley Carlyon; Barbara Lawall; James P. Walsh; George Silva; Shila S. Polk; Jon R. Smith, County Attorneys in their official capacities; Joseph Dedman, Jr.; Larry A. Dever; Bill Pribil; John R. Armer; Preston J. Allred; Steven N. Tucker; Donald Lowery; Joseph M. Arpaio; Tom Sheahan; Kelly Clark; Clarence W. Dupnik; Paul R. Babeu; Tony Estrada; Steve Waugh; Ralph Ogden, County Sheriffs, in their official capacities, Defendants, and State of Arizona; Janice K. Brewer, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 4, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Bouma , Robert A. Henry (argued) and Kelly A. Kszywienski , Snell & Wilmer L.L.P., Phoenix, AZ; Joseph Sciarrotta, Jr. , Office of Governor Janice K. Brewer, Phoenix, AZ, for Appellants.

Thomas C. Horne , Attorney General, Michael Tryon , Senior Litigation Counsel, and Evan Hiller , Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, AZ, for Appellant State of Arizona.

Thomas A. Saenz , Victor Viramontes (argued) and Nicholás Espíritu , Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Los Angeles, CA; Omar C. Jadwat and Andre Segura , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, New York, NY; Linton Joaquin , Karen C. Tumlin , Nora A. Preciado , Melissa S. Keaney and Álvaro M. Huerta , National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles, CA; Nina Perales , Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, San Antonio, TX; Chris Newman and Lisa Kung , National Day Labor Organizing Network, Los Angeles, CA; Marita Etcubañez and Jessica Chia , Asian American Justice Center, Washington, D.C.; Cecillia D. Wang , American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Immigrants' Rights Project, San Francisco, CA; Daniel J. Pochoda and James Duff Lyall , ACLU Foundation of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; Daniel R. Ortega , Ortega Law Firm, P.C., Phoenix, AZ; Yungsuhn Park , Connie Choi and Carmina Ocampo , Asian Pacific American Legal Center, a member of Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, Los Angeles, CA, for Appellees.

Aaron Leiderman , Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, San Francisco, CA; Bradley S. Phillips , Joseph J. Ybarra , Benjamin J. Maro , Lika C. Miyake and Margaret G. Ziegler , Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for all Appellees except Maria Morales and Service Employees International Union, Service Employees International Union, Local 5, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and Japanese American Citizens League.

Stephen P. Berzon and Jonathan Weissglass , Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Appellees Service Employees International Union, Service Employees International Union, Local 5 and United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

Before: RAYMOND C. FISHER, RICHARD C. TALLMAN and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

FISHER, Circuit Judge:

Two provisions in Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 make it unlawful for a motor vehicle occupant to hire or attempt to hire a person for work at another location from a stopped car that impedes traffic, or for a person to be hired in such a manner. These provisions raise First Amendment concerns because they restrict and penalize the commercial speech of day laborers and those who would hire them. Arizona defends the provisions as...

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