Subject: Law

• Psychic TV's Genesis P-Orridge drops PR bomb on Tom Anderson.

  August 27, 2007

• AZ ACLU honors New Times founders Jim Larkin and Mike Lacey as Civil Libertarians of the Year.

  March 31, 2008

• Say goodbye to separate-but-unequal at the Phoenix Country Club

  June 12, 2008

• A GOOD ADVERTISEMENT FOR CALLER IDAG AIDE PULLS A FAST ONE ON FIFE

  February 10, 1993

• Gasket Case

  During her 14-year marriage to an auto-parts mogul, Denise Hrudka lived in the lap of luxury. Then her husband stood up.

  November 2, 1995

• WHO KILLED KING?

  THE VALLEY'S HOTTEST POLITICAL STRATEGISTS TEAMED UP TO PUSH MLK DAY. NO WONDER IT FAILED.

  December 5, 1995

• "What Do They Do With Judges Who Do Things Like This?"

  Mitchell Vanorsby was awaiting trial for armed robbery when a judge let him out of jail. Now he's back behind bars, awaiting trial for murder.

  February 15, 1996

• At Lager-Heads

  Harvey McElhannon sells Diamondback Beer, and was the first to file for that trademark. Now Jerry Colangelo and Major League Baseball want him eighty-sixed.

  April 11, 1996

• Locked in Masquerade

  The Department of Juvenile Corrections helped create an overcrowding crisis in state juvenile facilities--to the benefit of a private contractor that employs two former state officials

  May 16, 1996

• Letters

  June 6, 1996

• Flashes

  August 15, 1996

• Official Secrecy Acts

  Fighting a legal war on multiple fronts, Symington and his attorneys turn to a time-honored tactic: stonewalling

  September 5, 1996

• Jafet Coronado's Good Samaritan

  The nursing assistant was fired for sexual misconduct. But when he was charged with crimes, Samaritan Health System decided he deserved the best defense money could buy.

  November 13, 1997

• Reform Fitting but Unlikely

  April 23, 1998

• Letters

  From the week of July 26, 2001

  July 26, 2001

• Arpaio, Artists and Assorted Grievances

  Letters from the week of November 21, 2002

  November 21, 2002

• Power Play

  County law enforcement's attack on the judiciary didn't work, but the war's far from over

  December 6, 2007

• Hart v. Arpaio civil rights class-action suit awaits verdict

  September 11, 2008

• ACLU Demands Peoria School District Allow Kid to Wear "Rainbows are Gay" Wristband

  The American Civil Liberties Board of Arizona is threatening action against the Peoria Unified School District after an eighth-grade student was prohibited from wearing a "Rainbows are Gay" wristband. The 14-year-old gay student was told to wear the wristband inside out or quit wearing it to school, says the demand letter by the ACLU. An official with the Peoria Unified School District tells New Times the district is still in spring break and that Superintendent Denton Sant

  March 17, 2009

• "Appearance of Evil" Requires Personal Sanctions Against County Attorney Andrew Thomas, Say County Supervisors

  A conflict of interest between Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and the county Board of Supervisors over the investigation of a planned court tower creates the "appearance of evil," a judge has ruled.  Judge Gary Donahoe The background: In the midst of a feud with the County Supervisors, Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio began investigating alleged crimes by county officials related to the planning of the proposed $340 million court tower. Neither politician has said publicly what

  March 31, 2009

• Al Sharpton to Denounce Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Tuesday Press Conference

  photo by David Shankbone Look out Joe, Rev. Al's comin' for ya... The left's finally bringin' out the big dogs to take on our racial-profilin' Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Tomorrow in Harlem, Rev. Al Sharpton will denounce Maricopa County's corrupt, tin-pot tyrant in a national press conference with Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN. Sharpton will demand Arpaio's resignation by the end of May, and if Joe fails to do so, Sharpton will march on Phoenix with a coalition of civil rights groups. "I am calling

  April 6, 2009

• Al Sharpton, Mary Rose Wilcox, ACORN's Bertha Lewis, and Others Blast Joe Arpaio on Media Conference Call

  photo by Juda EngelmayerRev. Al's got his eye on Sheriff Joe...As I promised in a previous blog post, I participated in a national conference call this morning, which featured the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, Pablo Alvarado of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Rev. William Barber of the North Carolina NAACP, and other civil rights leaders from around the country. The speakers called for Sheriff

  April 7, 2009

• Can Maricopa County’s Juvenile-Justice System Fix Troubled Teens? Rarely, One Judge Laments

  January 15, 2009

• New Times Sues County and Special Prosecutor

  October 11, 2007

• Danny Carbajal TKO'd

  The big brother of a Phoenix boxing champ pleads guilty to ripping off his late wife. He remains the chief suspect in her unsolved murder

  August 2, 2007

• Rock the Vote

  A Phoenix man may serve five years in prison for — get this — voting

  February 15, 2007

• Sue Me, Sue You

  The game of the name

  December 14, 2006

• Teenage Wasteland

  It's up to Governor Janet Napolitano to make sure history doesn't repeat itself — that is, boldly reform juvenile corrections. Or at least make sure someone's watching

  November 2, 2006

• Judicial Blacklash

  The County Attorney's Office declared war on a respected judge after he called a prosecutor's actions racist

  December 1, 2005

• Locked Up

  Despite promises of true reform, legislators appear bent on shelling out more money to private prison companies

  November 27, 2003

• Clink!

  Arizona's prisons are packed. Building more would cost millions. Governor Janet Napolitano wants to lockup even more people. But others say it may be time to let a few out.

  October 23, 2003

• Tax Broke

  Why is the state budget in crisis? Ask your legislators.

  September 26, 2002

• See You in October

  Federal investigation into juvenile corrections broad but slow

  August 8, 2002

• Federal Inquiry

  Justice Department examines conditions at state youth facilities

  June 27, 2002

• The Kids Are Still Not Alright

  Despite public scrutiny, abuse continues at the state's juvenile corrections facilities

  December 20, 2001

• Youth Decay

  Governor ignores calls for investigation of abuses within juvenile corrections

  September 20, 2001

• Kid Row

  Isolated, abused and lacking mental health care, do juvenile offenders leave state custody in worse shape than when they went in?

  July 5, 2001

• Cause Celeb

  After years of wildly blasting the Chandler power structure, self-proclaimed civil rights advocate Ramon Gomez now finds himself under attack

  June 7, 2001

• Docket Science

  Civil suits take back seat to criminal cases in county's full court press

  August 10, 2000

• Pirates of the Cyberspace

  Music, money and mayhem clog MP3 download sites

  May 11, 2000

• The Ho Shebang

  Local party promoter trademarks black hooker slang

  February 3, 2000

• When Photo Was King

  Images from the Deep South take viewers on a walk through the civil rights era

  January 13, 2000

• Policy Wanks

  Arizona political leaders know the answers but can't seem to pass the violence-prevention test

  November 11, 1999

• Growing Complicated

  Already, the state's grand plan for halting urban sprawl appears doomed

  August 5, 1999

• Joe's Slush Fund

  State auditor general confirms that Sheriff Arpaio misspent $122,419

  September 19, 1996

• THE RULE 11 REVOLVING DOOR

  A LOOPHOLE HAS ALLOWED THE MENTALLY INCOMPETENT TO COMMIT CRIME AFTER CRIME, WITHOUT BEING PUNISHED OR PLACED UNDER SUPERVISION

  July 13, 1995

• LAND OF THE FREE-FOR-ALL

  WITH PROPOSITION 300--THE PRIVATE-PROPERTY-RIGHTS MEASURE--ARIZONA ONCE AGAIN BECOMES A BATTLEGROUND FOR A NATIONAL RIGHT-WING CRUSADE

  October 27, 1994

• DIE LIKE A MAN

  A BIASED SYSTEM OF JUVENILE JUSTICE LEFT THAT AS HENRY CRUZ'S ONLY CHOICE

  August 26, 1992

• ACLU to Host Forum on "Constitution-Free" Zone Near Border That Allows Checkpoints

  Border Patrol checkpoints and their impact on civil rights will be discussed at a forum next week in Green Valley hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union. The topic is a hot one in the southern Arizona community, where some residents have fought plans to install a permanent checkpoint on Interstate 19 near Tubac. But the checkpoints and the "Constitution-free" zone -- as the ACLU puts it -- that allows them received notoriety in the Valley after a local man was Tased at a checkpoint on In

  July 6, 2009

• Hendershott on Computer Seizure: "We Felt Intrusion ... Was Imminent;" Wilcox Calls Raid a "Power Grab"

  Image: Pool picture taken by Repub photographer​ The chief deputy for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office told a judge yesterday he believed intrusion into a law enforcement computer system "was imminent," the Arizona Republic reported this morning. Apparently, that's the reason the chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, ordered a dozen armed deputies to take over the system on Wednesday despite an ongoing court battle over it. The hearing, which we covered in a live-blogging experiment yesterd

  August 14, 2009