Panel OKs bill to bar punitive damages for illegal immigrants.

PHOENIX — A House panel on Wednesday approved legislation designed to
benefit one man: Cochise rancher Roger Barnett.

The measure would spell out that anyone who is in this country
illegally cannot collect punitive damages even after winning a lawsuit.

Voters already approved a constitutional amendment doing precisely that
in 2006. But that came nearly two years too late for Barnett, who was
sued following a 2004 incident when 16 illegal immigrants said the
rancher illegally imprisoned them.

HB 2191 makes that ballot measure retroactive to the beginning of 2004.

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