Supreme Court sides with company in firing of illegal worker

Associated Press ^ | 3-27-02 | GINA HOLLAND

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) --

[Oldeconomybuyer]

5-4 is amazing.

[Semper Paratus]

5-4 is amazing.

Remember that and the boyscouts when the next SCJ appointment comes up.

[Ingtar]

5-4??? This must be an incorrect decision! Gore should sue! Oh, wrong case.

[freedomcrusader]

Glad to see at least one branch of government enforcing our immigration laws, instead of relaxing them.

[Jack Wilson]

And the families of the hijackers should sue the airlines and plane manufacturers for wrongful death....

[Oldeconomybuyer]

I will never forget the freaks at the 2000 DNC Convention who booed the Boy Scouts. It was a disgrace.

[Tauzero]

The Bush administration had argued that penalties are needed to keep employers from wronging illegal workers, considering the estimated 7 million undocumented workers in the United States.

[browardchad]

The $67,000 penalty, he said, "reasonably helps to deter unlawful activity that both labor laws and immigration laws seek to prevent."

The dissenting opinion summarizes our immigration laws as they are enforced. Breyer argues that immigration laws seek to prevent unlawful activity against aliens, and three other members of the Supreme Court agree with him. This same interpretation apparently applies to those engaged in muslim terrorism within our borders -- the laws protect them, and not U.S. citizens.

[upchuck]

Good for you SCOTUS. At least someone is trying to do something about ILLEGAL aliens. IMHO, persons in this country illegally have NO rights at all!

I reckon the INS is so totally FUBAR that W's amnesty proposal is seen as the only way out. What a bunch of crap!! The only thing it's gonna do is add to the demonRATS vote totals.

[Wurlitzer]

"Glad to see at least one branch of government enforcing our immigration laws, instead of relaxing them."

Agreed my friend but it was only a 5-4 vote. Anytime you do not get a 9-0,or at worse 7-2 vote it shows how political the SC is. It is the only part of the framework for our government that needs some further refining. (Most other issues could be resolved by going back to the original intent).

The SC answers to nobody! That seems to be a double edge sword. They are making law at the SC not interpreting legislation as it relates to the US Constitution, and it does not seem that we have a good mechanism to reverse them.

[Cacophonous]

5-4 is amazing.

Why? I can not think of a single significant case that was not 5-4.

[Cacophonous]

Justice Stephen Breyer said Hoffman was guilty of "a crude and obvious" violation of the labor laws. The $67,000 penalty, he said, "reasonably helps to deter unlawful activity that both labor laws and immigration laws seek to prevent."

Penalty? Since when is denying someone that broke the law something he did not earn a penalty?

Orwell is alive. Doubleplusungood.

[RCW2001]

George "new World order" Bush isn't going to like this one!

[Dane]

The Bush administration had argued that penalties are needed to keep employers from wronging illegal workers, considering the estimated 7 million undocumented workers in the United States.

That's because the NLRB had probably brought this suit before the Bush administartion came into power. This suit was in the pipeline for many years.

If the Bush administration had changed the suit in mid stream, the press and the unions would have been up in arms, but now SCOTUS has put the kibosh on it. Just like they will with the most vile parts of CFR.

That is why it is important to get the Senate back for Judicial nominees.

[Young Rhino]

Anyone know if quantum meruit was pled in the complaint?

[SoDak]

It is amazing, it's amazing to me that this wasn't 9-0. It seems so elementary.

[FreeTally]

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that illegal immigrants do not have the same rights as Americans when they are wrongly fired from U.S. jobs.

I must be confused here. I thought that it wasn't legal to hire "illegal immigrants"? How could someone even file suit against a copmany that had hired them illegally? And how can an illegal be "wrongly fired" when they couldn't be "righfully hired" in the first place? Sheesh! This is just totally stupid that this went to the SCOTUS.

[KC_Conspirator]

Justice Stephen Breyer said Hoffman was guilty of "a crude and obvious" violation of the labor laws. The $67,000 penalty, he said, "reasonably helps to deter unlawful activity that both labor laws and immigration laws seek to prevent."

Joining Breyer were Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The usual suspects. What this basically boils down to is that liberals are rewarding those who break the law.

[Republican Wildcat]

It's the same breakdown of justices, too. Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas v. Stevens, Souter, Breyer, Ginsburg.

[Republican Wildcat]

This suit apparently had been brought before the Bush administration came into being, so your highlighting of that sentence is rather pointless.