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Apr 17, 2017

Supreme Court rules trial judge right in tossing murder verdict

A California attorney convicted of a 2010 murder in Queen Creek is entitled to a new trial.

Mar 27, 2017

Voter initiatives must be error free under new GOP bill

Not content to make gathering signatures more difficult, Republican lawmakers are now moving to impose new procedural requirements on voters who want to propose their own laws.

Mar 14, 2017

Supreme Court upholds minimum wage law

The Arizona Supreme Court has unanimously ruled against a challenge to a voter-approved hike in the state’s minimum wage.

Mar 10, 2017

U.S. Supreme Court brings down gavel on O’Connor workout class

While the first female justice never managed to persuade her fellow justices to join her regularly, her workout class became a court fixture and a hit with a devoted group of women who live in the court's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Mar 9, 2017

AZ Supreme Court skeptical of minimum wage challenger arguments

Arizona’s Supreme Court justices spent time March 9 imagining a world in which the state’s voters may never get to pass laws by the ballot again.

Mar 8, 2017

High Court to hear minimum wage challenge

The state's business community will take its last-ditch effort to kill a voter-approved minimum wage hike to the Arizona Supreme Court Thursday.

Feb 28, 2017

The big question for courts: What’s the extent of cities’ right to make their own laws?

The question of whether cities can decide what to do with seized and forfeited guns could end up being decided based on how extensive the Arizona Supreme Court believes is the right of local governments to make their own laws.

Feb 14, 2017

Court should strike down new minimum wage law

Prop. 206 is a mix of foolish policy and political favoritism that harms the people it’s supposed to help.

Feb 14, 2017

State Supreme Court agrees to take up minimum wage case

Arizona’s Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments by the business community that the new voter-approved minimum wage violates the state’s Constitution.

Attorney General Tom Horne and his former campaign consultant Kathleen Winn testify regarding alleged campaign finance violations. (Photo by Tom Tingle/The Arizona Republic)
Feb 7, 2017

Arizona Supreme Court hears Horne appeal

Arguing that Yavapai County Sheila Polk impermissibly acted as judge, jury and executioner in their campaign finance case, lawyers for former Attorney General Tom Horne and his ally Kathleen Winn urged the Arizona Supreme Court to throw out a $400,000 fine for their alleged violation.

Feb 1, 2017

Dems join GOP in approving bill to ignore some U.S. Supreme Court decisions

The Arizona Legislature could ignore U.S. Supreme Court decisions it doesn’t like under a bill approved by the Arizona House of Representative today.

Feb 1, 2017

Trump Picks Neil Gorsuch for High Court: Now What?

Neil Gorsuch getting on the bench at 49 years old ensures another conservative could serve on the Supreme Court for a quarter century. However, his appointment would not change the court ideologically, which may cause Democrats to hold their real firepower for the next anticipated vacancy.

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