From the Edmond Sun:

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction preventing certain portions of HB 1804, Oklahoma’s tough, controversial new immigration law, from taking effect July 1.

Since the bill was passed during the 2007 legislative session, opponents have called the law, the object of multiple lawsuits, mean spirited. Meanwhile, public support for the law has remained high.

State Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, author of the bill, said he was out of the office putting up campaign signs and didn’t hear until after noon that a judge with the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Oklahoma issued the 17-page opinion.

In a statement, Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the preliminary injunction is not a final ruling, and the state would respond when a hearing on the permanent injunction is scheduled.

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