State and federal courts on Wednesday denied requests by inmate Donald Beaty to block his scheduled execution because of a last-minute replacement of one of three execution drugs.

May 5, 2005

Criminal and traffic cases will be subject to dismissal if defendants can prove they are the victims of racial profiling, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

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.

Arizona is free to limit what constitutes legal insanity in criminal cases, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

A loosely organized effort to oust a state Supreme Court justice is forcing him to consider an unprecedented campaign to keep his post.

Arizona goes back to court this coming week over SB 1070, this time to defend a provision aimed at day laborers.

Gov. Jan Brewer appointed her third justice Friday to the five-member Arizona Supreme Court, once again, a Republican just like her.

The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the executions of two inmates, including one who has been on death row for 26 years for brutally killing and dismembering his adoptive mother. The court approved warrants for Robert Henry Moormann and Robert Charles Towery and set their executions eight days apart from one another. Moormann’s execution was scheduled for Feb. 29 and Towery’s was scheduled for March 8.

A controversial procedure used by lenders to store mortgage documents is not illegal — and not enough to stop home foreclosures, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday.

State lawmakers have broad authority to impose new restrictions on abortion and who can perform the procedure, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

State lawmakers have broad authority to impose new restrictions on abortion and who can perform the procedure, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

PASADENA, Calif. • Arizona is entitled to force would-be voters to prove citizenship so that everyone who is legally entitled to cast a ballot believe in the process, state Attorney General Tom Horne argued Tuesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for an Arizona inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday.

Without debate, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday refused to expand the Arizona Supreme Court from five to seven members.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared closely divided Wednesday about an Arizona tax-break program that provides millions of dollars in scholarships for students at private religious schools.

The next judge to sit on the Arizona Supreme Court will have prior experience on the bench.

A federal appeals court ruled Monday there’s nothing illegal about the state taking money from an inmate’s wages for them to have when they’re released.

Thirteen lawyers have applied for a state Supreme Court vacancy.