Part of Alabama Immigrant Law Blocked

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/us/2-alabama-immigration-law-provisions-are-blocked.html?_r=1&hpw

The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued a preliminary injunction against a section of the law that requires schools to determine the immigration status of children who are enrolling, as well as the status of their parents. It also blocked a section making it a state crime for illegal immigrants not to carry registration documents.

Among the sections of the law that the court let stand is one requiring the police to determine the immigration status of someone who has been arrested or pulled over in a traffic stop if “reasonable suspicion” exists that the person is in the country illegally. The court also declined to block a provision rendering most contracts with illegal immigrants unenforceable and a section making it a felony for an illegal immigrant to conduct a “business transaction,” like renewing a driver’s license, with any governmental body in the state.