ATLANTA — Lawsuits challenging Georgia’s and Alabama’s laws targeting illegal immigration went back before a federal appeals court Friday as attorneys from both sides asked judges to reconsider the crackdowns in light of a recent Supreme Court recent.Georgia filed papers with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that its law should be upheld based on the Supreme Court ruling on a similar law enacted by Arizona.However, Alabama conceded that parts of its law similar to the Arizona statute were blocked by the Supreme Court decision while saying other sections should be allowed to take effect, including a provision that requires public schools to check students’ citizenship status.Opponents in both states argued that lawmakers there overstepped their authority in passing laws that encroach on federal powers.The Supreme Court upheld a section of Arizona’s law that requires police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons. It also struck down three key sections that would: require all immigrants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers; make it a state criminal offense for an illegal immigrant to seek work or hold a job; and allow police to arrest suspected illegal immigrants without warrants.The 11th Circuit in March heard arguments in challenges to both Georgia and Alabama’s illegal immigration crackdowns, but the three-judge panel said at the time that it would wait to rule until after the Supreme Court had acted in the Arizona case. Friday was the deadline for lawyers in those cases to submit new briefs based on the Supreme Court ruling.One part of Georgia’s law that was blocked last year by a federal judge is “more tempered” but “bears close similarity in all respects” to that section, Georgia’s lawyers argue in their filing with the 11th Circuit.