Surprised to find an intruder with a softball bat demanding his wallet when he awakened one night earlier this month at his Tempe, Ariz., apartment, 23-year-old Alex Botsios reportedly did…
Updated: The group Judicial Watch has accused the chief justice of Arizona’s Supreme Court of imposing an implied ban on the term “illegal alien” and 17 other words or phrases…
Prosecutors said yesterday that the 8-year-old boy accused of murdering his father and the father’s friend methodically reloaded a .22-caliber rifle as he committed the crime, pumping at least four…
An 8-year-old Arizona boy appears in court today after being charged with two counts of premeditated murder in the shooting deaths of his father and a co-worker.
Federal judges around the country are speaking out against what they view as harsh mandatory and recommended sentences for child pornography crimes, spurred in recent years by Congress and public…
Papers covering the 33 years that the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist spent on the U.S. Supreme Court, including correspondence with fellow justices, have been donated to his alma mater.
An Arizona appeals court has overturned a lower court’s order that a Tuscon attorney and his wife turn $2.1 million over to the account of one of the attorney’s clients.
An Arizona-based law firm has opened its first foreign office in Mexico, becoming the first major United States firm to do so in the Baja California Sur state.
Despite the savings and loan meltdown that hit the country some 20 years ago, many states at the center of that maelstrom apparently didn’t learn the obvious lesson: Regulation is…
In a spillover of the criminal violence that is an increasing problem in Mexico, kidnappings for ransom—both real and “virtual”—are on the rise in Arizona.
A Phoenix lawyer has succeeded in his quest to get the Arizona Supreme Court to change a rule that had barred out-of-state lawyers from practicing in the state unless they…
The Arizona legislature is scrambling for a way to pay Kenneth Starr’s $910 an hour fee to defend the state’s spending on students who speak another language.
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