A state law requiring cities and other smaller governments to sync elections with the state doesn’t apply to “charter cities,” which have a right to set their own election dates, the state’s high court ruled Monday.
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A public outcry to maintain and keep Arizona’s parks open is finally being listened to by state lawmakers.
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The unidentified woman was picked up with her daughter and granddaughter by Border Patrol agents in the Arizona desert, then turned over to Catholic Social Services, who discovered her illness during a medical exam at a Tucson shelter.
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In a lawsuit filed in Maricopa County, an attorney claims staff members of the Arizona Department of Corrections violate the rights of her clients in prison by listening to privileged conversations.
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Three nonprofits filed a federal lawsuit in Arizona seeking to vacate the Sanctuary for Americans First Enactment Agreement, which attempts to prevent the Biden administration from departing from the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
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The Maricopa County Superior Court ruled that the Arizona Republican Party and its attorneys must pay the Arizona secretary of state $18,000 in attorney fees for a failed lawsuit challenging the 2020 presidential election results. The court determined the plaintiff’s legal position was “flat wrong” and that it refused to admit it sued the wrong party.
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Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick’s border district has flipped back and forth from Republican to Democratic control several times since former Representative Jim Kolbe retired in 2006.
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Was the witty banter between a Costco pharmacist and a man’s ex-wife in good faith? The man will get a chance to prove it wasn’t.
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Although the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona has been ravaged by Covid-19 — at one point serving as the world epicenter of infections — the Tohono O’odham Nation has not been hit as hard.
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A Maricopa County judge ruled the Arizona Board of Regents must give ESPN a copy of the Notice of Allegations from the NCAA relating to its investigation of the University of Arizona’s men’s basketball program, which was launched after one of its coaches pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery for taking money from “athlete advisors” in exchange for using his position to encourage players to retain the services of those advisors.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona dismissed implied-in-fact contract claims against Steve Wozniak but ruled that copyright claims against the Apple co-founder can continue. A professor claims Wozniak wrongfully used his copyrighted work in the marketing and publicizing of technical education company Woz U.
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The court’s expected reversal carries implications for challengers of new voting laws cropping up in other parts of the country.
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A federal judge Wednesday fined Arizona $1.1 million for contempt stemming from its failure to comply with a 2014 settlement over the health care of inmates in the state’s prisons, the second such fine for the state since 2018.
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Justice delayed is justice denied, a bipartisan group of lawmakers agreed Wednesday while considering the excessive caseloads that plague judges across the United States, particularly in the Ninth Circuit.
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An Arizona woman charged in connection with the Jan. 6 onslaught of the U.S. Capitol bragged in a Snapchat video that she was recently recruited by a Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys, a neofascist organization that describes itself as “Western chauvinists” and has long forbidden female members.
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The new administration has declined “to make a further substantive submission” to the U.S. Supreme Court in cases over Arizona election laws the Ninth Circuit found discriminatory toward racial minorities.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona denied a tribal group’s request for a preliminary injunction in its suit seeking to stop the transfer of land within the Tonto National Forest, which includes a sacred Apache ceremonial ground, to copper mining companies.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit ruled against a man who claimed Arizona failed to count his vote in the 2016 General Election. He, along with 2,000 others, applied to vote on Oct. 11, 2016 — one day after the deadline to register to vote. The deadline day was also Columbus Day, a state and federal holiday, during which certain voter registration methods were unavailable.
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Grand Canyon University sued the U.S. Department of Education Tuesday in an attempt to force the federal agency to recognize the Christian school’s nonprofit status, as the Internal Revenue Service and state of Arizona have.
Read moreESPN is asking a court to compel the Arizona Board of Regents to comply with its public records request relating to accusations several basketball coaches took or offered bribes as part of their recruitment practices.
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