Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

U.S. District Court

transgender girls sports, Horne,
May 19, 2023

Horne urges judge to dismiss transgender girls’ bid to void law tied to sports

Arizona's school chief is urging a judge to dismiss a bid by two transgender girls to void a new state law that prohibits them from playing on teams designated for girls.

dark money, Proposition 211, Voters' Right to Know Act, lawsuit,
May 1, 2023

Group asks judge to toss conservative advocacy organization’s attempt to kill ‘dark money’ law

The group that convinced voters last year to expose "dark money'' contributions to political campaigns wants a federal judge to toss a bid by a conservative advocacy group to kill the new law.

romance scam, generals, prison
Apr 25, 2023

Texas man involved in online romance scams gets 3 years

A Texas man was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years in prison for his role in an online romance scam in which the identities and images of real U.S. military generals were used to cheat victims from Arizona and around the nation out of a total of $1.5 million, federal prosecutors said.

trans girls, sports, lawsuit
Apr 18, 2023

Transgender girls go to court over Arizona school sports ban

The parents of two transgender girls in Arizona filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a year-old state law banning trans girls from participating in school sports.

Mexico, guilty plea, assault, U.S. Border Patrol
Mar 20, 2023

Man pleads guilty to assaulting 2 border agents in Arizona

A 26-year-old man from Mexico has pleaded guilty to assaulting two U.S. Border Patrol agents last year on the Tohono O'odham Nation, authorities announced Monday.

abortion, Arizona Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade, personhood, fetus, Miranda, 15 weeks, fetal abnormality, pregnancy, fathers, women, doctors, ACLU
Jan 23, 2023

Judge: women no longer have legal right to abortion due to fetal abnormality at any stage of pregnancy

Women in Arizona no longer have the legal right to an abortion due to a fetal abnormality at any stage of the pregnancy, even if Arizona courts finally conclude the procedure is legal through 15 weeks for no reason at all.

romance scam, U.S. District Court, Texas, Rhode Island, Arizona, Tennessee, North Carolina, California, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Idaho, South Dakota, money laundering, conspiracy
Jan 17, 2023

Texas man pleads guilty to role in $1.6M romance scam plot

A Texas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a romance scam in which women from Arizona and other parts of the country were cheated out of a total of about $1.6 million by someone often pretending to be a U.S. Army general.

Finchem, Lake, election, governor, secretary of state, lawsuit, hand counts, ballots, sanctions, attorneys,
Dec 29, 2022

Lake, Finchem appeal for day in federal court

The top two Republicans who lost their races for state office last month are making a new legal bid in their separate efforts to outlaw the use of machines to tabulate votes in Arizona.

BNSF Railway, Navajo, Navajo Transitional Energy Co. , Montana, Flagstaff, Arizona, Japan, Korea, Spring Creek Mine, Wyoming, coal export facility, Four Corners Power Plant, New Mexico, Nebraska, Warren Buffet
Dec 20, 2022

Navajo company sues BNSF Railway over coal transportation

One of the largest coal producers in the United States sued a major freight railroad Tuesday, alleging it breached a contract to transport coal from Montana for use overseas.

arrest, charges, Hobbs, threats, voicemail, U.S District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, election, Lake, Secretary of State, governor
Dec 13, 2022

Ohio man arrested after allegedly making death threats with Secretary of State’s Office 

An Ohio man was arrested on Monday on charges that he made three profanity-laced death threats to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office. 

containers, border, Ducey, federal government, Border Patrol, Bureau of Reclamation, Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, Highground, Nogales, Cocopah Tribe, Chuck Coughlin
Nov 18, 2022

Environmental group wants to join legal battle to force Ducey to remove containers

A national environmental group wants to join the legal battle to force Gov. Doug Ducey to take his shipping containers off the international border.

vote, election, general election, Department of Justice, polls, ballots, ballot monitors, Maricopa County, Pima County, Navajo County, Pinal County, Maricopa County, Clean Elections USA, U.S. Attorney, Voting Rights Act
Nov 7, 2022

Feds will be watching polling in five Arizona counties

Federal officials will be watching polling Tuesday in five Arizona counties. But no one is saying how the Department of Justice selected those five -- or exactly what form that monitoring will take.

Subscribe

Get our free e-alerts & breaking news notifications!

You don't have credit card details available. You will be redirected to update payment method page. Click OK to continue.