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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.