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.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona denied Apache Stronghold’s request for a temporary restraining order to present the U.S. government from publishing a final environmental impact statement on a copper mine project, which would permit the sale of 2,422-acres of land that the plaintiff’s claim is “Western Apache land” under an 1852 treaty.
Read moreA federal court in Arizona granted a class of 40,000 wastewater customers and 30,000 water customers a preliminary injunction to prevent Johnson Utilities from distributing proceeds of its asset sale, with the exception of $15.5 million. The class claims the utility company’s owner bribed a former state regulator in order to charge customers excessive prices.
Read moreNeither the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution or the Arizona Constitution require law enforcement officers to get a warrant or court order to “obtain IP addresses or subscriber information voluntarily provided to ISPs,” the Arizona Supreme Court ruled.
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In a brief State of the State address Monday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey doubled down on his resistance to another statewide lockdown, saying he believes closing businesses would be worse than the Covid-19 pandemic that has killed roughly one of every 720 state residents.
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Courthouse News reporter Brad Poole reflects on the lingering effects of a shooting that gripped the nation and a southwestern city — and sparked a nationwide gun-control debate.
Read moreA federal court in Texas dismissed U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert’s suit challenging the constitutionality of the Electoral Count Act for lack of standing. Gohmert and the other plaintiffs, Republican presidential electors for Arizona, claimed there are “competing slates” of electors from contested states and the vice president should decide which electoral votes should count.
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With Covid-19 on the rise by virtually every metric, Arizona’s political and health care leaders are urging the public to hunker down for the holidays and skip gatherings with people outside their households.
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Forest fires and development have nearly decimated the Mt. Graham red squirrel, with only about 100 left in their “bottleneck habitat.”
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Crews have been dynamiting remote and rugged mountainsides in the southeast corner of Arizona, reshaping the landscape in an effort to build more border wall before President Trump’s term ends in January. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible.
Read moreThe Arizona Supreme Court revived the state attorney general’s suit against the Arizona Board of Regents over subsidizing in-state university tuition for DACA recipients. The attorney general “is entitled to prove that, in providing in-state tuition on behalf of students who were unlawfully present, ABOR illegally expended funds beyond the amount of tuition collected.”
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The reason President-elect Joe Biden won in Arizona may be because of President Donald Trump. But Trump won’t be on the ballot for the 2022 midterms, and he probably won’t be on the ballot in 2024 either.
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Cannabis users in Arizona will only have to wait a couple weeks to smoke out legally under a new law passed Nov. 3, but they shouldn’t hold their breath for shops.
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