The ACLU and other groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center and labor unions, unveil their class action lawsuit June 2 aimed at blocking Georgia's immigration law. The first hearing on the challenges is scheduled for Friday.
The groups earlier this week asked Judge Thomas Thrash to block the law until a lawsuit they filed last week has been resolved. That lawsuit asked Thrash to find the law unconstitutional and to keep authorities from enforcing it.
Gov. Nathan Deal and other state officials are named as defendants. A lawyer for the state said she plans to file a motion to dismiss the lawsuit next week. The judge also plans to hear arguments on that motion June 20.
Thrash agreed to the plaintiffs' request to expedite the hearing since most parts of the law take effect July 1.
