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Article: AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF TEXAS, MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND FILE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- January 10, 2007
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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund issued the following news release:
Early this morning, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU) filed a request for a temporary restraining order blocking implementation of an anti-immigrant ordinance adopted by the Farmers Branch City Council on November 13, 2006. The ordinance is scheduled to go into effect on January 12.
"We regret that the City Council is continuing its plan to implement this ordinance despite strong community opposition and its likely unconstitutionality," said Lisa Graybill, Legal Director for the ACLU of Texas. "Now the ...