Immigration act ruling appealed

Times Leader staff

HAZLETON – The city on Thursday filed an appeal of a federal judge’s ruling that overturned the city’s illegal immigration ordinances, following through on a vow Mayor Lou Barletta made shortly after the ruling was announced in July.

Attorney Harry G. Mahoney filed notice of the city’s appeal to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

The notice, filed in federal court in Scranton, states the city is appealing Judge James Munley’s July 26 ruling that invalidated the ordinances, as well as several of the judge’s earlier rulings that permitted several defendants in the case to proceed anonymously.

The filing does not specify the legal basis of the appeal. That information will be filed later in legal briefs before the court of appeals.