Our Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence teamed up with Manny Klausner's Individual Rights Foundation to file an important "friend of the court" brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the Arizona immigration law litigation.

Institute Senior Fellow John Eastman, aided by CCJ Director Tom Caso, CCJ Attorneys Karen Lugo and Ryan Darby, and Chapman University Law School student Christy Lewis, challenged the contentions made in the case by the Department of Justice, concluding that Arizona was fully within its right as a sovereign state to adopt SB 1070 and begin trying to get a handle on the harm caused by un-enforced federal immigration law.