The smell of marijuana is no longer enough in Arizona for police to get a warrant and come busting down the door, the state Court of Appeals has ruled.
Read More »Attorneys for RUCO, Corp. Comm. debate method water companies use to increase rates 
Lawyers for the Residential Utility Consumer Office and the Arizona Corporation Commission faced off in the Arizona Court of Appeals on June 23 to debate the constitutionality of a mechanism that allows water companies to recoup costs for infrastructure investments outside of a rate case.
Read More »Ruling upholds convictions based on warrantless search
An Arizona court has upheld a woman's marijuana convictions based on a warrantless search conducted when sheriff's deputies were sent to a home in response to a 911 "hang-up" call that was treated as an emergency.
Read More »Bump in state revenues could be offset by new law 
The state’s ending balance in fiscal 2016 could be better than the Legislature predicted when it adopted a budget in March, unless Gov. Doug Ducey signs a bill conforming state business taxes to the federal standards.
Read More »State Supreme Court rules Legislature can’t tinker with local elections
For the second time in three years, the Arizona Supreme Court has blocked efforts by state lawmakers to control when charter cities can hold their elections.
Read More »Panel to consider settlement of school inflation money case 
Attorneys in a nearly $2 billion lawsuit over inflation funding for public schools are to meet Monday with a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals to discuss settling the case.
Read More »Brewer joins multistate lawsuit against Obama immigration order 
Gov. Jan Brewer is signing on to a 17-state lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of President Obama’s recent order deferring deportation for millions of illegal immigrants.
Read More »Court to review ruling on pot use probation ban
The Arizona Supreme Court plans to review a lower court's ruling that judges can't order people on probation to not use medical marijuana.
Read More »Judge finds MCSO investigators made false statements in obtaining search warrants
Finding evidence of false statements by sheriff’s investigators, the state Court of Appeals on Tuesday gave the owner of a chain of Phoenix area restaurants a chance to undermine - and possibly escape - charges he knowingly hired undocumented workers.
Read More »Appeals court rejects more money for charter schools
Arizona's charter schools are not entitled to another $135 million of taxpayer funds, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
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