WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans fiercely criticized President Barack Obama's choice for a seat on a San Francisco-based federal appellate court Friday, in an intensifying test of his ability to install an unabashed liberal. Nominee Goodwin Liu tried to deflect the criticism by assuring lawmakers that his personal views would "never have a role" in his opinions if confirmed to a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

SAN FRANCISCO — A Las Vegas developer has been bounced between tribal and federal court in an effort to protect his financial interest in the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a popular glass bridge that extends from the canyon's edge on tribal land in western Arizona.

Workers who claim an employer illegally stole and patented one of their ideas cannot get relief in state courts, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.

Workers who claim an employer illegally stole and patented one of their ideas cannot get relief in state courts, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.

PHOENIX - A federal appellate court on Thursday blocked enforcement of a 2004 state law requiring Arizona voters to present identification when casting ballots and to submit proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

Workers who claim an employer illegally stole and patented one of their ideas cannot get relief in state courts, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.

PHOENIX – Come election time in 2012, voters will have online access to more information about state appellate judges when they decide whether to retain them, thanks to two new laws.

Arizona's early June deadline for independent presidential candidates to get on the general election ballot is illegal, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday.

Gov. Janet Napolitano is seeking applications for five vacancies on the Commission on Appellate Court appointments.

A federal appeals court on Friday slashed the punitive damage award imposed against former state utility regulator Jim Irvin after he was found guilty of using his position to thwart one company's bid for Southwest Gas.

Public schools and government agencies have no right to keep claims made against them private, even if the victim is a minor, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

The countdown begins now for Rep. David Burnell Smith. An appellate court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling that Smith must leave office for violating the state’s Clean Elections laws.

The countdown begins now for Rep. David Burnell Smith. An appellate court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s ruling that Smith must leave office for violating the state’s Clean Elections laws.

Gov. Janet Napolitano on Tuesday chose Phoenix attorney and political ally Scott Bales to be the 40th justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.

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Two children conceived from the frozen sperm of an Arizona man after his death are entitled to his Social Security survivor benefits, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday.

Arizona cities can’t prevent people from buying magazines with pictures of naked people in the middle of the night.

The Arizona Court of Appeals issued a 54-page ruling last month on the controversial issue of whether state lawmakers are required to provide more cash to certain public schools.

TUCSON - A federal appeals court has ruled that a juvenile’s confession in the 1991 killings of nine people at a Buddhist temple near Phoenix was involuntary.

Applications are being accepted for a vacancy created on the Arizona Supreme Court when Justice Michael D. Ryan retires on Aug. 6. The Commission on Appellate Court Appointments will review applications, interview applicants, and recommend at least three nominees to Gov. Jan Brewer. Applicants must have been admitted to the practice of law Arizona and a resident of the state for the past ten years, and under age 65 at the time the nomination is sent.

The nation’s high court agreed Friday to let state officials argue that Arizona has done enough to help students learn English and should not be required to do more.

Here’s the latest chapter in the now 18-year Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste controversy: According to its press release this week, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed "public health standards for the planned high-level radioactive waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nev., that will protect public health for 1 million years."

The Arizona Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether there is a religious right to possess marijuana.

It is said that hard cases make bad law, and that seems to be the case with Brigham City v. Stuart, in which a 9-0 U.S. Supreme Court made it a little easier for police officers to enter a home without a warrant or without knocking and announcing themselves.