Trials

Liberty League of Scottsdale Runs Clean Shop, Says Lawyer; Ex-Lib Leaguers Can Judge If He's Right From '05 State Order

A lawyer for Liberty League International of Scottsdale wrote to us after our recent post about a $5 million lawsuit against the company. Not surprisingly, he rejects our gut-feeling theory that Liberty League has probably violated the terms of a 2005 settlement with Arizona Attorney General Terry ... More >>

Muslim Claims Discrimination by Sheriff Joe Arpaio Over Beard Led to Harassment and Demotion

Sinan Fazlovic, a Bosnian Muslim who moved to the United States in 1999, thought he had an understanding about his long beard when he was hired in 2005 as a jail guard for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken the job, he says in a lawsuit filed today by the Americ ... More >>

Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Legislative Districting Plan

Ruth McGregor This just in: The Arizona Supreme Court has upheld the state's legislative districting plan, nearly seven years after it was initially adopted.A group of left-leaning advocates, including Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, State Representative Pete Rios and the Hispanic Bar A ... More >>

Thomas Drops Court Demand for Injunction to Stop County From Running Civil Lawsuit Department

Maricopa County leadership is claiming another win in its fight against a lawsuit filed by County Attorney Andrew Thomas. According to the Board of Supervisors, Thomas is no longer asking the courts for an injunction to stop the county immediately from setting up its own civil lawsuit department, w ... More >>

Hate For Doug Grant: Despite Scant Evidence That Grant Killed His Wife, the Jury Convicted Him Anyhow

County Creates New Civil Litigation Department With Money Taken From County Attorney Andrew Thomas

The Maricopa County Board Supervisors today sealed the deal on their transfer of power over civil litigation matters out of the office of County Attorney Andrew Thomas (pictured). With a vote in their informal meeting this morning, the supervisors created a new department to handle civil lawsui ... More >>

Before Don Stapley’s Indictment, There Was the Land Deal

The Outcome of the "Serial Shooter" Case Seems Certain, While the Doug Grant Mormon Murder Trial Is Anything but That

Buddhist Temple Murders Killer's Conviction Overturned by Ninth Circuit Court

The nightmare of the 1991 massacre at a Phoenix Buddhist temple resurfaced today after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of the triggerman in the slayings, Jonathan Doody (pictured above with his lawyer). The Associated Press reports that the appeals court judges found ... More >>

Dramatic Testimony Heard In Mormon Murder Case

Jurors and a packed courtroom heard riveting, often heartbreaking, testimony today as the prosecution opened its first-degree murder case against former Phoenix Suns nutritionist Doug Grant. Actually, Jenna Stradling, who is alleged murder victim Faylene Grant's 18-year-old daughter, is on the st ... More >>

Arizona Appeals Court Upholds Conspiracy Conviction for Illegal Immigrant

Andrew Thomas Ignores Evidence That Courtney Bisbee Was Wrongly Convicted of Child Molestation As Supporters Work to Free Her

New Times’ Lawsuit Continues, Stern’s “Disorderly Conduct” Charge Dropped, and We Ask a Judge to Force Joe to Release Video of a Suffocated Inmate's Last Minutes

Tim Nelson: "Alarming Increase in Acquittal Rates" During Andrew Thomas' Tenure as County Attorney (With Update from Thomas' Office)

Federal Judge Dismisses Certain Claims in New Times' Lawsuit Against County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The Case Will Move Forward

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

Judge Neil Wake takes action in the jail conditions lawsuit against Arpaio

Federal judge thwarts Wilenchik's delay attempts in massive jail-deaths suit against Arpaio

Another stain on Andrew "Nifong" Thomas' record: The continued imprisonment of Courtney Bisbee.

Jurors convict Robert Ortloff in Kathleen Smith's murder

The Shoe Still Don't Fit, But...

Bombshell: The explosive backstory in the Robert Ortloff murder trial may be more fascinating than the case itself

SMACKDOWN! Judge Edward Burke bitchslaps Dennis Wilenchik & Andrew Thomas.

Persecution Complex

Prophet Warren Jeffs' conviction won't stop underage marriages among his followers, much less end polygamy

The Cost of Cruelty

A federal jury returned a $9 million verdict against Maricopa County in still another jailhouse death

Judicial Blacklash

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

A Legal Matter

Litigators and legislators play chicken-or-egg with nursing home issues

The Practice

Trial begins for controversial abortionist

Courting Death

U.S. Supreme Court says don't short-change death clients

Off with their heads

Arizona's Juries are proving tougher than judges under a new murder sentencing system

Criminal With an Asterisk

Has ex-governor J. Fife Symington III gotten his just desserts?

Identity Crisis

Court committee considers keeping the names of jurors secret

Justice Delayed

Star prosecutor finds himself on the defensive over fast-track flap

Appealing Outcome

Inmate finally wins his own freedom after six-year legal fight

The Money Pit

Angry customers say a Valley log home builder has stolen their dreams and pocketed their cash

Deflating a Case

Lawsuit against TRW airbag plant settled for $175,000

Harassment Supreme?

Angry ex-employees say there's more than dinner cooking at the Pizza Hut of Apache Junction

The Final Straw

Brian Eftenoff's going to prison. He shouldn't have called his dead wife a coke whore.

The Fag Card

Gay convict claims judge's homophobia put him on Death Row

Double Double Talk

Burger chain heads to court over alleged trademark violation

Drug War Cowboys

The DEA may finally get its man

Snake Killer

They call it "Snake Farm." Lawyers like Cal Thur battle State Farm to protect consumers from their own insurance company. Moral of the story: Don't have an accident.

Docket Science

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

Feds Will Retry Symington on Criminal Counts, Sources Say

Forgive Us Our Debts

The news just keeps getting worse for investors in the Baptist Foundation of Arizona

Yo Quiero My Money Back

Former Taco Bell owner and Baptist Foundation ex-director files lawsuit against BFA

A Litany of Litigation

Investors file suit against besieged Baptist Foundation

Silent Witness

The bombshell never exploded in the state's most-watched murder trial

Fostering Sexual Abuse

Foster kids say the state ignored its own policies, exposing them to sexual predators

Paradise Lost

Does Fife Symington have the guts to finally 'fess up?