A federal judge has dismissed Huntington Beach’s lawsuit against the state’s landmark sanctuary law, which limits cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.

Judge Sunshine S. Sykes, of the US District Court for the Central District of California, ruled Dec. 1 that the city lacked standing to challenge the law in federal court. Sykes invoked a Ninth Circuit precedent which held that a political subdivision, including charter cities such as Huntington Beach, do not have legal footing to raise federal constitutional claims against its own state’s statutes.

Huntington Beach sued the state in January over the California Values Act, or SB54; the City Council also declaring Huntington Beach a non-sanctuary city .

The 2017 California law placed restrict

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