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PHOENIX -- Today the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) granted Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s request to allow Arizona’s pro-life law, S.B. 1457, to go into effect, while litigation moves forward.

“I am pleased with today’s ruling and proud to defend Arizona’s law that protects the unborn,” said Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich. “The best of any society can be seen in how it treats its most vulnerable.”

PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich praised the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) today after it ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) unconstitutional overreach in the nation’s utility power sector in West Virginia v. EPA.   

“Today’s decision is a victory for the separation of powers and the ability of the free market to bring prices down,” said General Brnovich. “The federal bureaucrats at the EPA do not get to pick and choose how America produces its energy.”

PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich applauds the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) for protecting the First Amendment rights of public employees. General Brnovich co-led a multi-state amicus brief in Joseph A. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich applauded the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) for correcting a nearly fifty-year-old wrongly decided SCOTUS decision and returning the issue of abortion back to the states.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich applauds the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) for upholding the Second Amendment declaring New York’s subjective-issue firearm license regime unconstitutional in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen.

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that Arizona, along with 45 other attorneys general, obtained a $1.25 million multistate settlement with Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line, stemming from a 2019 data breach that involved the personal information of approximately 180,000 Carnival employees and customers nationwide. Arizona will receive $52,177.22 from the settlement.

TUCSON - Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced today that Amy Lyn O’Neill of Tucson has been sentenced to 4 years of probation with 30 days in jail for embezzling funds from the Jimmy Jet Foundation, a nonprofit organization serving the Arizona National Guard’s 162nd Fighter Wing. O’Neill was convicted of one count of Solicitation to Commit Theft on June 21, a class 4 felony, after being indicted in December 2021.

PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich, leading a coalition of 17 states, filed an amicus brief today in the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Texas and Louisiana in Texas v. United States.

PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a win today for First Amendment rights in Carson v. Makin, with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruling in favor of parents using state tuition assistance for religious schools.

“I am proud to have joined the amicus in this case supporting school choice,” said Arizona Attorney General Brnovich. “Education is the key to upward mobility in our society. A state should not be able to discriminate against a school simply because it is religious.”

PHOENIX – Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed a lawsuit today against current school board member and former president, Jann-Michael Greenburg, along with the entire Scottsdale Unified School District (SUSD). 

"SUSD manipulated public input and silenced the voices of parents in order to advance its own agenda," said General Brnovich. "This type of bad school behavior demands expulsion."