The blog has covered this case — the one where the state decided it didn’t have to follow Judge Williams’ order. The State appealed Judge Williams and lost.
Law & Crime covers it here:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit delivered a sharp rebuke on Friday to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier
over the state’s new immigration enforcement law — scolding him for
making “a veiled threat” to defy a judge’s order blocking local
immigrant arrests, while ruling to leave the order in place.
“Whether he is right or wrong about his control over other
law-enforcement officials, the Attorney General has not made a ‘strong
showing’ on this issue,” wrote Judges Embry Kidd, Kevin Newsom and Jill
Pryor in a 16-page ruling. The appeals court denied a request for a stay made by Uthmeier and his office in a May 7 motion,
which claimed the state’s new immigration enforcement law (SB 4-C) was
being followed “to aid the United States in curbing illegal immigration
within the state’s borders.”
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The 11th Circuit called out Uthmeier for his resistance on Friday,
saying “the equities seem to cut against the Attorney General — and in
any event do not cut in his favor — given his seemingly defiant posture
vis-à-vis the district court.” The judges also chided him for condemning
what he calls a “universal” injunction, in reference to Williams’
order, noting how he “does not meaningfully contest the propriety of the
class certification” in the stay motion.
The court said that even if the AG is correct in claiming that
Florida’s law-enforcement officers are totally separate entities over
which he has no meaningful control, it still doubts that Uthmeier has
Article III standing to appeal the portion of the district court’s order
enjoining other state law-enforcement officials, as he alleges.