From CNN,
Appeals court temporarily blocks judge’s order to dismantle ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’
CNN reports the details,
On Thursday, the Eleventh US Circuit Court of Appeals granted requests from the State of Florida and the US Department of Homeland Security to stay a district court’s preliminary injunction that would have forced the site to wind down operations within 60 days. A preliminary injunction is a temporary order put in place until a court can make a final decision in a case.
“After careful consideration, we grant the defendants’ motions and we stay the preliminary injunction and the underlying case itself pending appeal,” ruled the divided three-judge panel in the majority opinion.
You will recall that a group of environmental nonprofits and Indian tribes had sued to shut down the temporary illegal immigrant processing facility in the Florida Everglades on environrmental grounds.
Every news outlet on planet earth reported on the district court judge’s initial ruling. We’ll see if the higher court’s contrary ruling attracts a similar level of attention.
