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Court allows minor league players to sue for minimum wage violations
A federal appeals court has given a key victory to players on minor league baseball teams the right to sue to be paid the minimum wage while they're in spring training in Arizona.
Arizona falls short in providing health care to prisoners, judge finds
A federal judge overseeing the settlement agreement of a class-action lawsuit has found the Arizona Department of Corrections is falling considerably short in several areas of providing adequate health care to prisoners.
Agreement can’t be reached on prisoners’ health care claims
Attorneys came to an impasse today in resolving claims the Department of Corrections is shirking its obligation under a year-old lawsuit settlement to improve health care for prisoners.
After 33 years, class-action suit seeking care for the seriously mental ill comes to a successful end
In 1980, local mental health experts came together to draft what became known as Senate Bill 1057, a proposed statute intended to create a responsive and accessible community-based system for persons with serious mental illness.
Class-action status won in suit over prison care
A handful of Arizona prison inmates who sued the state over the quality of health care at the state's prisons won class-action status that lets other prisoners join the case.
Plaintiffs rest in Arpaio racial profiling case
Offensive letters, tearful personal stories and reams of statistics have been shared as plaintiffs' lawyers rested their case Tuesday in a racial profiling lawsuit against an Arizona sheriff and his department.
Hearing set in challenge to Arizona immigration law
A judge presiding over challenges to Arizona's immigration enforcement law will hear arguments Monday over a request by the law's opponents for class-action status in their lawsuit that seeks to overturn the law.
Interim settlement OK’d in AZ mental health case
State officials on Thursday reached an interim settlement with plaintiffs in a decades-old court case over the adequacy of Arizona's community-based services for the seriously mentally ill.
ACLU sues feds for shackling immigrant detainees
The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups have filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court seeking to stop a practice in which alleged illegal immigrants are shackled at the feet, waist and wrists while appearing in immigration court.
