Daddy Was Only a Donor

Posted on June 23, 2010 by

In “The Switch,” coming later this summer, Jennifer Aniston plays an attractive 40-year-old professional who has given up on finding Mr. Right for marriage and decides instead to move straight on to motherhood with a donor father. The movie offers [...]

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AZ bill: Time limit null for suits over sex abuse of child

Posted on February 23, 2010 by

State lawmakers voted Monday to give childhood victims of sexual abuse an entire lifetime to sue those who assaulted them. Without dissent, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a measure to repeal the existing laws that require civil suits to be [...]

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Weighed down by recession woes, jurors are becoming disgruntled

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

Spurned in his effort to get out of jury duty, salesman Tony Prados turned his attention to the case that could cost him three weeks’ pay: A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was suing his former sergeant, alleging severe emotional [...]

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Pothole Fall Costs Tempe $150,000

Posted on November 15, 2006 by

Woman Needs Knee Replacement After Tripping During Arts Festival Tempe taxpayers could shell out more than $170,000 in the coming year from one lawsuit. Of that amount, $150,000 will go to a California woman who tripped on a pothole and [...]

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Reservist Seeks $1 Million, Claiming Wrongful Arrest

Posted on July 22, 2005 by

He Says Rights Were Violated, Threatens to Sue An army reservist arrested in April for holding seven undocumented immigrants at gunpoint is demanding $1 million from Maricopa County for wrongful arrest and incarceration. Sgt. Patrick Haab, who spent four nights [...]

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County Attorney Says TV Tainting Viewers, Jurors on Forensic Evidence

Posted on July 1, 2005 by

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is tired of forensic television shows tainting jurors and creating unrealistic demands for forensic evidence. Thomas wants shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS and Law and Order on NBC to flash disclaimers, saying [...]

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Video Sounds Alarm for Drunken Boaters

Posted on June 26, 2005 by

Party Mood Results in Risky Behavior The judge stared crossly at the defendant before him, a clean-cut young man found guilty of killing a young girl in a boating accident. The young man was drunk when his boat ran over [...]

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‘Beyond Aggressive’ Law Firm Sues Verizon

Posted on June 16, 2005 by

A Tempe law firm that bills itself as “beyond aggressive” expected an exclusive spot in Verizon’s Yellow Pages when it paid more than $100,000 for a full-color advertising insert in the book. But when Verizon sold a similar cardboard “tab” [...]

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No Charges Filed; Fire Victims Irate U.S. Attorney Says Evidence Supports Lost Woman

Posted on July 19, 2002 by

As Paul K Charlton, the US attorney for Arizona, prepared to announce that he was not going to file criminal charges in the catastrophic “Chediski” fire, Overgaard resident Steve Lillie entered the gymnasium toting a charred pine log. “I had [...]

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Bikers Descend on Cave Creek

Posted on April 6, 2002 by

How many motorcyclists hell-bent on keeping their good name can you cram into a one-road community of 3,600 residents? Inspired by accusations that Cave Creek is prejudiced against motorcyclists, thousands of the leather lovers are expected to descend on Cave [...]

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