{"id":20187,"date":"2015-12-31T00:03:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T05:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20187"},"modified":"2015-12-31T10:25:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T15:25:24","slug":"d-ariz-defs-motion-summary-judgment-denied-in-doj-case-v-maricopa-county-for-discrimination-against-hispanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20187","title":{"rendered":"D.Ariz.: Defs&#8217; motion for summary judgment denied in DOJ case v. Maricopa County for discrimination against Hispanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a wide-ranging opinion (just released on Lexis) on Sheriff Joe Arpaio\u2019s actions as Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, issue preclusion from a prior suit against the County would be applied (Ortega-Melendres v. Arpaio, 836 F. Supp. 2d 959, 969 (D. Ariz. 2011), aff\u2019d sub nom. Melendres v. Arpaio, 695 F.3d 990 (9th Cir. 2012)), the Ninth Circuit added the county back in after state case law indicated it could be a party, and summary judgment by the defendants was denied on various claims including a claim for retaliatory arrests in violation of the First Amendment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/file\/785481\/download\">United States v. County of Maricopa<\/a>, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 171944 (D.Ariz. June 15, 2015), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/crt\/legacy\/2012\/12\/19\/121212_US_v_MCSO_MTD_Decision.pdf\">prior opinion<\/a> 915 F. Supp. 2d 1073 (D. Ariz. 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a wide-ranging opinion (just released on Lexis) on Sheriff Joe Arpaio\u2019s actions as Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, issue preclusion from a prior suit against the County would be applied (Ortega-Melendres v. Arpaio, 836 F. Supp. 2d 959, 969 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20207,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20187\/revisions\/20207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}