Arizona HB2191/Prop 102 Limit on illegal-alien lawsuits faces test (ILLEGALS SUING AZ RANCHERS) As an Arizona rancher faced a court order earlier this year to pay $87,000 to illegal [aliens] he caught on his land, the Legislature set out to right what many considered a wrong. -- The Legislature passed a law to make retroactive to 2004 a 2006 referendum banning courts from awarding punitive damages to illegal [aliens]. Ranchers Roger Barnett and Casey Nethercott (SPLC and Border Action Network fight AZ ranchers)
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/05/30/20110530arizona-illegal-immigration-damages.html
BAD NEWS: Judge rules against Arizona rancher in immigrant case
ReplyDeleteA new Arizona law that retroactively prevents courts from granting punitive damages to illegal aliens will not help rancher Casey Nethercott, a Cochise County judge ruled Tuesday
A year after the incident, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a civil lawsuit against Nethercott and several of the other men on behalf of the illegal aliens. The Texas state court in 2005 issued a civil judgment of $850,000 against Nethercott.
A Cochise County judge later signed over Nethercott's Arizona ranch to the illegal aliens to cover some of the judgment. (HOW SAD IS THIS????)
No word on Rancher Roger Barnett!
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/05/31/20110531arizona-rancher-illegal-immigrants-damages-law.html