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The Arizona Department of Corrections has asked an appeals court to throw out a contempt-of-court ruling against its director and a $1.4 million fine against the state for failing to adequately improve health care for the 33,000 inmates in state-run prisons.

Attorney General Mark Brnovich is getting some allies in his legal fight with California over that state's efforts to tax Arizona businesses and individuals.

The state, and attorneys for a convicted murderer, will argue before the Arizona Supreme Court whether his conviction of first-degree murder on a retrial violates the Double Jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment.

The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday rebuffed the latest bid by Attorney General Mark Brnovich to have the method of setting tuition at the state's three universities be declared unconstitutional.

The state Department of Child Safety has to defend how it handles the more than 14,000 children in foster care now and all those who will be there in the future.

Gov. Doug Ducey now has the majority of the Arizona Supreme Court picks after appointing Judge James P. Beene today to fill the seat vacated by Justice John Pelander.

Family courts have no right to interfere with the decisions of a parent given sole legal custody of a child after a divorce absent some showing of specific harm, even when the issue involves the youngster's decisions about sexual identification, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

An attorney for members of various political parties told a federal judge Friday she should order a statewide election − and soon − to let voters fill the Senate seat now occupied by Martha McSally.

Claiming the rights of women are being violated, Planned Parenthood filed a broad-based legal attack on a host of Arizona laws and regulations governing abortion.

State lawmakers are weighing whether to give judges more leeway to eliminate the requirement that certain people register for life as sex offenders.