U.S. Supreme Court strikes down key parts of Arizona law

 By Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer

The Supreme Court upheld one part of the Arizona immigration law but struck down other sections.

Text of the decision (PDF)The part of the law the justices upheld requires police officers stopping someone to make efforts to verify the person’s immigration status with the Federal Government.

The justices struck down three other parts of the law:

• One making it a crime for an illegal immigrant to work or to seek work in Arizona;
• One which authorized state and local officers to arrest people without a warrant if the officers have probable cause to believe a person is an illegal immigrant;
• And one that made it a state requirement for immigrants to register with the federal government.