Posted on 08/29/2009 7:07:39 AM PDT by radar101
Federal Judge refuses to certify class action lawsuit against Sheriff Arpaio and his office for alleged racial profiling during saturation patrols.
Phoenix, AZ - The United States District Court in Manuel de Jesus Ortega Melendres vs. Arpaio denied the motion to certify the lawsuit for class action treatment against Sheriff Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
The judge determined that the motion failed to present sufficient evidence of the fact that a real and immediate threat of future constitutional injury from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office exists to bring their lawsuit in the form of a class action.
The Court’s ruling is a major blow to the efforts of proving that Sheriff Arpaio and his office have been racially profiling Latinos during saturation patrols. The ruling also limits the lawsuit to the handful of plaintiffs that filed it as well as whether or not their constitutional rights were violated rather than increasing the scope of the lawsuit to include almost every Latino resident of Maricopa County.
“We follow and enforce the law. This lawsuit was filed by the ACLU and supports political efforts in an attempt to prevent me from doing what I have been charged to do by law. I am pleased that the judge recognized there was insufficient evidence to turn this political lawsuit into class action” Arpaio says.
Sheriff Arpaio stated that his office has arrested and investigated over 31,000 illegal aliens throughout Maricopa County and will continue to enforce all federal and state Illegal immigration laws. Sheriff Arpaio has also vowed to conduct another crime saturation patrol in the very near future.
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office
Take that you ACLU thugs! We LOVE Sheriff Joe here in Arizona for DOING THE JOB THAT OUR FEDERAL GOV’T WON’T DO (arresting ILLEGALS for BREAKING THE LAW OF THE USA).
An honest judge? How refreshing.
Kudos, Sheriff Joe!
I used to live in Tucson Arizona and some day hope to return. I loved this man then and still do. I hope he keeps up the good work and influences other Sheriffs to follow in his footsteps. I wish he was from Tucson.
Yeh, and if for some reason the ACLU manages to get him out of that office, we’ll run him with Sarah Palin in 2012. Because We the People love him too.
*SMILES*...GOOOOOOOOOO JOE!
God bless Jo!
Gotta love this guy. I never knew the number was that high. To listen to the MSM you would thingk a dozen or two.
Am in AZ also, and yep, we love Sheriff Joe too!
wOOt!!!!!
Real, patriotic Americans *do* still exist. There is yet hope for our country.
I wish I had a Joe to vote for as Sherrif. The last of the truly great sherrifs.
Talk about cleaning up.
Too many Uber-Libs in Tucson to have a Sheriff Joe. don Raoul Castro and don Edwardo Pasteur wouldn’t allow it.
If you're looking for illegal immigrants who crossed the Mexican border, it's a pretty safe bet that they might look like they're Latino.
Arpaio is of Italian heritage. His mother died while giving birth to him, and Arpaio was raised by his father, a grocery store owner. He completed high school and worked in his father’s business until age 18 when he enlisted in the United States Army.[7]
Arpaio served in the Army from 1950-1954 in the Medical Detachment Division and was stationed in France for part of the time as a military policeman.[8]
Following his discharge from the Army in 1954 he moved to Washington, D.C. and became a policeman, moving in 1957 to Las Vegas, Nevada. He would serve in Nevada only six months before obtaining a job as a Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration.[9] During his 25-year tenure with DEA, he was stationed in both Turkey and Mexico, and advanced to the position of head of the DEA’s Arizona branch.[10]
In 1992, Arpaio successfully campaigned for the office of Maricopa County Sheriff. He was re-elected in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 with considerable support of the county voters.[11]
As a DEA agent, Arpaio risked his life innumerable times, and was awarded many citations for valor. You cannot scare this guy, who has had at least 1000 death threats. God bless him!
Go Sheriff Joe!
BTT!
Case law for all those hand tied local LEOs out there. It’s round up time.
Sheriff Joe...kick azz and take names!
Also...”arrested and investigated over 31,000 illegal aliens...”
Most of which are probably still dressed in pink and currently residing at Sheriff Joe’s Maricopa Gitmo Holiday Retreat & Spa.
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