U.S. Court of Appeals

Tohono O'odham Nation Continues Defending Plans for West Valley Casino; Opponents' Lawsuits Haven't Let Up

A U.S. District Court judge has scheduled a hearing on April 9 in an ongoing legal battle to block the Tohono O'odham Nation from building a casino in the West Valley. Despite several back-to-back legal victories for the Nation, its opponents are not backing down. "Throughout this process, the Nat ... More >>

Bill Montgomery's Ghost of Christmas Present: Injustice

If there were a law against keeping parents from their children for no good reason on Christmas, or any other day, then Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, and many of his functionaries, would be guilty as charged. Currently, neither the county attorney's office nor the Maricopa County Sheri ... More >>

Arizona Organix Steps Out as the State's First Authorized Medical-Marijuana Dispensary

Ninth Circuit Court Grants Time to Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall in Monday Hearing on Abortion Law

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court has decided to make Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery happy and grant more time to both sides in a hearing on Monday related to Arizona's ban on late-term abortions. As we blogged last night, Montgomery filed an emergency motion with the appeals court yesterday t ... More >>

Russell Pearce Thrown Under the Bus by SB 1070 Attorney John Bouma: The Transcript

See also: SB 1070 Slugfest: Will Judge Susan Bolton Block 1070's "Papers Please" Section? See also: SB 1070 Oral Arguments on "Papers Please" Section Scheduled for August 21See also: ACLU Seeks New Injunction on "Papers Please" Portion of SB 1070See also: SB 1070, SCOTUS, Friendly House, and a Ray o ... More >>

SB 1070 Oral Arguments on "Papers Please" Section Scheduled for August 21

See also: ACLU Seeks New Injunction on "Papers Please" Portion of SB 1070 See also: SB 1070, SCOTUS, Friendly House, and a Ray of Hope See also: Russell Pearce's Falsehoods, Inaccuracies and Inventions on Channel 12's Sunday Square-Off See also: Russell Pearce Scores Another Win Against Hispanics, M ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Trial Ends, and Yes, Joe's Still Guilty as Sin

See also: Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Trial Begins, and, Yes, He's Guilty as Sin See also: Joe Arpaio's Taliban, Nativist Steve Camarota, and More Problems for the MCSO See also: Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Legal Scholar Brett "Shut Up" Palmer and Flunky Brian Sands Under Oath As U.S. District Judge G. M ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Legal Scholar Brett "Shut Up" Palmer and Flunky Brian Sands Under Oath

See also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial to Answer Examples of Seemingly Bigoted Leadership See also: Joe Arpaio Looks Like Tired, Old Racist on Stand During Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Trial Begins, and, Yes, He's Guilty as Sin See also: Joe Arpaio ... More >>

The Supreme Court's 1070 Ruling Is No Win for Teabaggers

Andrew Thomas' Ex-Special Prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik Appointed to Real Estate Board by Governor Jan Brewer

File this one under "outrage du jour": Dennis Wilenchik, the former special prosecutor whose runaway investigation of New Times resulted in the wrongful arrests of Village Voice Media Editor Michael Lacey and VVM CEO Jim Larkin, has been appointed by Governor Jan Brewer to sit on Arizona's Real Esta ... More >>

Paul Babeu Touts Gay Rights While LGBT Inmates in His Jail Suffer

Joe Arpaio's Lawyer Grilled by Ninth Circuit About Why Sheriff Should Remain Exempt from New Times' False-Arrest Lawsuit

Sheriff Joe Arpaio​Editor's note: This post was written by Peter Jamison, who covered the hearing for us and our sister paper, the SF Weekly: An 11-member panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had tough questions today for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Case: Summary Judgment Hearing Set for December 22

If there were Black Hole of Calcutta for bad sheriffs, is there any doubt that Joe Arpaio would be in it? Arpaio, the biggest un-indicted criminal in Arizona, is responsible for so much malfeasance, illegal activity and human misery, that his Teflon Don persona continues to amaze, even as the n ... More >>

New Times Wins Appeal; Lawsuit Against Joe Arpaio -- et al -- to Be Heard by Full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

www.northersun.com​The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today that it will re-hear New Times' lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and others over the 2007 arrest of its founders on bogus charges that it published an article about "secret" grand jury testimony about a grand ... More >>

SB 1070 Boycott Over? NCLR Says, "Yes," Sal Reza Says, "Hell, No!"

irregulartimes.comBoycott over? Depends whom you ask. Sand Land's nativism, however, persists.Friday evening, I received the letter below signed by Janet Murguria of the National Council of La Raza, essentially declaring that the boycott of Arizona over Senate Bill 1070 is finito.Granted, the letter ... More >>

SB 1070 Shooter Gary Kelley Sentenced to 27.5 Years in White-on-Brown Slaying

Gary Kelley: SB 1070's new poster-boy, now sentenced to 27.5 years in the state penA note to Sand Land's hillbilly gun-huggers: Beer and firearms don't mix. And they mix especially poorly with bigotry, latent or otherwise. Case in point is Gary Kelley, the South Phoenix man who gunned down his ... More >>

Rick Renzi, Disgraced Former Arizona Congressman, Not Immune From Prosecution, Ninth Circuit Says

Rick Renzi​Rick Renzi, the disgraced former Arizona congressman, can be prosecuted for his alleged crimes related to a corrupt land-swap deal, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has decided.The 45-page ruling issued today could have an impact on the President and other me ... More >>

Comatose Border Patrol Victim Spared Deportation, Removal from St. Joseph's (For Now)

UnivisionJose Gutierrez, who is in a vegetative state, with part of his skull removedSaint Joseph is traditionally the patron saint of workers and immigrants. The latter is because the father of Jesus was forced to flee to Egypt to save the Christ child from Herod the Great's wrath. Once King Herod ... More >>

Russell Pearce Is His Own Worst Enemy

Sidebar: Fantasy Voter Fraud

Tom Horne Declares "It's Over," Leads Andrew Thomas by 853 with Around 4,500 Ballots Left

electtomhorne.com"It's an absolute certainty now," said Horne of his unofficial win.State Schools Superintendent Tom Horne declared victory Saturday night over former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, his rival in the GOP primary for state Attorney General. This, after today's count left Horne ... More >>

Phoenix Turns Into a Hurricane of Civil Disobedience After SB 1070 Smack-Down, and the MCSO's Police State Tactics on Parade

SB 1070 on Hold: Judge Susan Bolton Strikes Down Heart of Arizona Law

Judge Bolton, slicing up SB 1070 like a hunk of beef.Although district court Judge Susan R. Bolton did not enjoin SB 1070 in its entirety this morning, she cut the heart out of Arizona's discriminatory "papers, please" legislation, leaving its zombie-like corpse bloodied but still standing.In her or ... More >>

SB 1070 Field Day: Judge Susan Bolton May Enjoin Law in Part

Governor Brewer, outside federal court ThursdayIn a day filled with protests, arrests, legal arguments, an appearance by the governor, and at least one certified neo-Nazi, the most significant developments in the SB 1070 saga happened within the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix, n ... More >>

New Times Appeal in Lacey vs. Arpaio Heard by Appeals Court Panel

​Should Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, and former Special Prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik be held accountable for their investigation into this newspaper -- and the jailing of its owners?That question is now in the hands of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ... More >>

Local Federal Judge Disagrees With Higher Court; Says No To Child-Killer Debra Milke's Claim Of Miranda Rights Violation

A U.S. District Court Judge has dealt Debra Milke (pictured in a 1991 photo) a big legal setback, ruling that the death-row inmate did validly waive her Miranda rights against self-incrimination before she allegedly confessed to having her son murdered in 1989. ​  Judge ... More >>

Will Convicted Child-Killer Debra Milke Win New Trial? We're Betting She Will

Spent some of the morning in the federal courtroom of Judge Robert Broomfield, who is considering whether to order a new trial for longtime Arizona death-row inmate Debra Milke, convicted two decades ago of orchestrating the execution-style murder of her 4-year-old son Christopher.   ... More >>

Taser International Sued by the Family of a Las Vegas Doctor Who Died After Being Zapped by Police

www.maniacworld.com​The zap-happy folks at Scottsdale-based Taser International are the subject of a new lawsuit seeking punitive damages from the company for fraudulently misrepresenting its products as non-lethal.The lawsuit stems from a January 2008 incident in Nevada, where a Las Vegas doctor ... More >>

"Declare Your Independence with Ernie Hancock" Features Yours Truly as Guest

Think Ernie's got an ego? Nah...I took up Phoenix libertarian Ernie Hancock's invite to be on his Webcast Wednesday morning, after much prodding from Hancock and his supporters. Alas, I couldn't make it into the studio. (Sorry, Ernie, I've never been an a.m. person.) Still, we s ... More >>

Underwear the Safest Place for Students to Hide Contraband, Says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

The U.S. Supreme Court decision to declare a strip-search of an Arizona student unconstitutional also "announces the safest place to secrete contraband at school," says Justice Clarence Thomas. Just stick those drugs in your skivvies. Don't you love when a government official makes things clear f ... More >>

U.S. Appeals Court Berates Lawyer-Turned-Judge’s Work in the “Going to See Santa” Murder Case

Ninth Circuit Considers Case of Oldest Man on Death Row in U.S.

  We wrote about Viva Leroy Nash, the character shown below, a few weeks ago. Mainly, we took a hard look at his case because, at 93, he's the oldest man on death row in the United States. We pointed out that, despite being sentenced way back in 1983 to die, Mr. Nash never w ... More >>

Dead Man Talkin'

A murderer tells New Times that he wants desperately to die, but a U.S. appeals court won't let the state kill him

Roadkill

Now the Arizona Department of Transportation is being attacked on affirmative action

Paranoia Reigns

Pissed at Joe's insanity, Senator John McCain makes it official: He endorses Saban.

Spiked

Taxpayers are footing the bill for a death row inmate's media kit. How much, you ask?

Reasonable Doubt

Federal judge questions DOC chief's credibility

Off with their heads

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

Dead Man Talking

Killer Robert Comer is pleased with a decision that may end his life

Harrod for Hire

Conviction of Tovrea heiress hit man upheld by Court

Flashes

Flashes 08-19-1999

It's the Media Violence, Stupid

Civil Libertines

The battle over Phoenix's groundbreaking sex-club ban moves into federal court

Poetic Justice

The federal judges Fife Symington once decried as "philosopher kings" will now decide whether he goes to jail

High Goon

Blade Runner

MisJudged

U.S. District Court Judge Carl Muecke ruled on the letter of the law, but his liberal views and tough courtroom style made him the judge that conservatives love to hate

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Alien Victory

Appeal court affirms federal judges' right to review immigration decisions

ON GOLDEN PAWN

DESPERATE PEOPLE WILL HOCK ALMOST ANYTHING FOR QUICK CASH. THAT'S WHY PAWNSHOPS ARE BUSTLING, AND THE COPS ARE BUSTING