[JURIST] Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) [official website] on Thursday filed the state's opening brief [text, PDF] in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website], asking the court to lift the preliminary injunction blocking Arizona's controversial immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news archive] from taking full effect. In the brief, Arizona argues that the preliminary injunction should be vacated because District Judge Susan Bolton applied the wrong legal standard in issuing the preliminary injunction. The brief argues the district court only found that the law was unconstitutional because it was "likely" to conflict with federal...