9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

A federal appeals court has ruled that regulators were wrong to conclude that parts of Pima County slated for a copper mine are critical to the preservation of endangered jaguars.

A planned bill would essentially counteract the 9th Circuit ruling in an Arizona copper mining case, which blocked the Rosemont copper mine last year because the company hadn't proven it had mineral rights on the adjacent land where the waste rock was to be buried.

Another judge has adopted a U.S. appellate court’s stricter interpretation of a century-and-a-half-old mining law in a new ruling that blocks a metals mine in Nevada.

A Native American group that's trying to stop an effort to build one of the largest copper mines in the United States told a full federal appeals court panel Tuesday that the project would prevent Apaches from exercising their religion by destroying land they consider sacred.

An Apache group battling a foreign firm that wants to build one of the largest U.S. copper mines on what tribal members say is sacred land is getting a new chance to make its point to a full federal appeals court panel.

President Biden announced the nomination of Roopali Desai on Wednesday. Desai has been at the center of virtually every major election case in Arizona in recent years.

A federal appeals court has denied a request by lawyers for an Arizona man facing execution this month to be allowed to make new arguments in an effort to overturn his death sentence.

A federal appeals court has revived a claim in a lawsuit that alleges the federal government failed to provide basic education services for students at Havasupai Elementary school in the Grand Canyon.