Project
Law, Rights, and Religion Project
Document Type
Document
Publication Date
2-2020
Abstract
On Monday afternoon, February 3, 2020, U.S. District Court judge Rosemary Márquez issued a sweeping opinion in which she granted the religious liberty defenses raised by four activists working with the Southern Arizona group No More Deaths/No Más Muertes. The opinion reversed an earlier ruling in the case by Magistrate Judge Bernardo Velasco in which he had found the activists guilty of violating federal law for leaving water and food in the desert for migrants in the Cabrieza Prieta National Wildlife Area, a federally controlled refuge in the Southern Arizona desert where human remains of migrants are frequently found. The lower court had dismissed the religious liberty defense by characterizing it as a “modified Antigone defense.”
Disciplines
Immigration Law | Law | Religion Law
Recommended Citation
Law, Rights, and Religion Project,
Major Federal Court Victory for Religious Liberty Rights of Immigrants' Rights Activists,
(2020).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/gender_sexuality_law/31
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