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An appeal of whether the Arizona Legislature violated the state Constitution in 2016 by forbidding local governments from regulating employees' non-wage benefits is still pending.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump's appointment of a lawyer who formerly was Gov. Doug Ducey's top staff attorney to be a U.S. District Court judge for Arizona.

The next justice on the Arizona Supreme Court will come from a list of seven candidates that includes four Court of Appeals judges, a public defender, a lawyer in private practice and a controversial county attorney.

Now that the federal government plans to resume capital punishment, Arizona should as well, according to Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

Dissent among Arizona Supreme Court justices in a gay discrimination case could be why they still have not issued a ruling since oral arguments six months ago, an Arizona State University law professor said.

James Moeller, the author of several of precedent-setting decisions of the Arizona Supreme Court, has died.

Their candidate squeezed out of the last screening, allies of Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery are lining up to urge that he be nominated for the Arizona Supreme Court.

Judge Jon Thompson, the longest serving member on the Arizona Court of Appeals Division I, passed away early this morning. He just turned 65 this month.

Newly-appointed Arizona Supreme Court Justice James Beene gravitated toward his profession in the same way a lot of young kids do — he fell in love with a book.

In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, the justices said that Hector Sebastion Nuñez-Diaz never would have entered into a plea deal on a drug charge had he been informed it would result in his automatic removal from this country.