Search Results for: farmers branch

Seems to be a growth industry in that town. A former Farmers Branch City Council member filed a lawsuit against the city Wednesday, asking a state district judge in Dallas to order the city to turn over invoices for legal … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Could be. Farmers Branch officials are backing away from vows to go as far as the U.S. Supreme Court to defend a voter-approved ban on apartment rentals to illegal immigrants. The city instead is relying on a replacement ordinance designed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Is it just me, or is the main business of Farmers Branch these days defending itself against lawsuits? Latino advocates and a civil liberties group are suing a Dallas suburb whose officials want to oust illegal immigrants by checking the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here we go again. Opponents of a Dallas suburb’s latest effort to drive away illegal immigrants asked a federal judge Monday to restrain Farmers Branch officials from enforcing a ban on rental housing to people who can’t prove they are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

That headline sounds more apocalyptic than I intend for it to be, but it’s just a reference to the fact that U.S. District Court Judge Sam Lindsay entered a final judgment striking down Ordinance 2903, the law in Farmers Branch … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Good. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay issued a permanent injunction barring the city from implementing Ordinance 2903, which voters approved 2-to-1 in May 2007. But the newer version of the effort, Ordinance 2952, remains and is slated to go into … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Another lawsuit has been filed against Farmers Branch and its continuing anti-immigrant assault, this one on the grounds that its City Council violated open meetings laws when it considered the new ordinance that banned undocumented aliens from renting apartments or … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As we know, the city of Farmers Branch passed a new ordinance to restrict undocumented immigrants from renting apartments, with the burden of verifying the applicants’ status falling on the city. They did that in an effort to bypass the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We knew it was coming, and now here it is: Farmers Branch passed another ordinance aimed at undocumented immigrants and rental housing. City officials whose previous attempts to keep out illegal immigrants have been blocked by the courts took another … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You almost have to admire their perverse level of determination. The Dallas suburb that jumped into the nationwide debate over immigration plans to take up another law to force out undocumented immigrants. The Farmers Branch City Council plans to consider … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We know that an injunction has been issued against the city of Farmers Branch, which prevents them from enforcing their ordinance requiring landlords to verify renters’ immigration status. There were other lawsuits filed against that city related to that law, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

What happens when you succeed in driving illegal immigrants out of your town? A lot of small businesses suffer. RIVERSIDE, N.J., Sept. 25 — A little more than a year ago, the Township Committee in this faded factory town became … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sometimes, these things just write themselves. Farmers Branch is suffering an identity crisis. So say city leaders who are on a mission to come up with a brand, an identity or an event – something that people will come to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

At last, we have an official injunction against the anti-immigrant ordinance in Farmers Branch, to replace the existing temporary restraining order. Agreeing with lawyers for residents and apartment owners who sued, U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay wrote that the measure … Continue reading → Continue reading →