April 18, 2022
PHOENIX (AP)– Arizona victims of long-ago child sex abuse can proceed with lawsuits against groups like the Boy Scouts of America after the state Supreme Court rejected claims that a state law extending victims’ right to sue was unconstitutional. Arizona …
November 1, 2017
The Arizona Supreme Court has declined to review a case involving the deadly Yarnell Hill wildfire that devastated a rural Arizona community in 2013 and killed 19 elite firefighters. The decision leaves intact the Arizona Court of Appeals’ ruling seven …
February 21, 2017
The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether employers can be held liable to somebody who contracted cancer from asbestos brought home on a parent’s work clothes. The case stems from the 2014 death of Dr. Ernest Quiroz, whose …
May 9, 2016
The legal immunity provided physicians by Arizona’s medical marijuana law for certifying patients to use pot only applies to the medical certifications, not other conduct such as making false statements in documents, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The high …
April 24, 2014
The presence of non-impairing marijuana compounds in a person’s body isn’t a justification for authorities to prosecute under Arizona’s driving under the influence laws, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in the latest opinion on an issue that several states …
March 14, 2013
A new Arizona Supreme Court ruling upholds a state law that seeks to screen out flimsy medical malpractice suits by requiring that plaintiffs have a testifying witness from the same medical specialty as the doctor being sued. The court’s unanimous …
July 12, 2012
An employer is not liable for injuries sustained by a third party involved in an auto accident with a company employee during a work trip, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled this week. The high court reasoned that an employer is …