GA 16-11-200 - GA 16-11-200

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Standing. - In a pre-enforcement constitutional challenge to sections 7 and 8 of Georgia House Bill 87, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011, in which Georgia officials appealed a district court's entry of a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of those two sections, an immigration attorney had standing to challenge section 7 because the attorney faced a credible threat of application of section 7. The attorney was a civil immigration attorney who alleged and declared that the attorney regularly transported undocumented immigrants to and from court hearings, met with immigrant clients in the attorney's law office, gave legal advice to undocumented immigrants who wished to remain in Georgia, and helped undocumented immigrants to enter Georgia...