May 02, 2025
The Florida attorney general indicated Friday that he is likely to appeal an injunction blocking a state law that criminalizes the transportation of immigrants living in the country illegally and asked a Florida federal judge to pause the proceedings until the Eleventh Circuit had looked at the case.
March 12, 2025
A Florida federal judge narrowed a statewide injunction blocking a state law that criminalizes the transportation of unauthorized immigrants, saying the injunction should apply only to the plaintiffs who have established standing in the case.
June 14, 2024
Florida tried Friday to bolster its arguments against a farmworker group challenging a state law that criminalizes the transportation of unauthorized immigrants, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Thursday over access to an abortion medication undercuts the group's quest for standing.
June 07, 2024
Florida has urged a federal judge to reconsider an order blocking a state law that criminalizes the transportation of unauthorized immigrants, saying its argument that opposing parties failed to state the law is federally preempted was never addressed by the court.
May 24, 2024
A Florida federal judge may backtrack on the scope of his order blocking a state law that criminalizes the transportation of unauthorized immigrants, after citing national discourse among legal experts on the appropriateness of universal injunctions.
May 22, 2024
A Florida federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a new law that criminalizes the transportation of unauthorized immigrants, saying the law intrudes on the federal government's authority over immigration matters.
April 01, 2024
Attorneys for the Farmworker Association of Florida Inc. have urged a federal judge to get a move on in deciding whether to block a Florida law that makes transporting unauthorized immigrants a crime, saying a recent Fifth Circuit decision provides the impetus.
February 12, 2024
A Florida federal judge on Sunday paused a suit by immigrant rights advocates against state officials challenging a law that makes transporting unauthorized immigrants a crime, staying the case until he decides whether to temporarily block the law.
February 09, 2024
A Florida federal judge denied a bid by affected individuals to proceed anonymously in their challenge to a state law making transporting unauthorized immigrants a crime, ruling the individuals' privacy concerns aren't exceptional enough to warrant anonymity.
December 22, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can't be sued over a state law criminalizing the transport of unauthorized immigrants, a federal court ruled, saying the bill's critics hadn't shown that the governor was personally responsible for enforcing the law.