Arizona lawmakers are free to ignore laws they approved requiring public access to their meetings and there's nothing that courts can do about it, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday.In a unanimous ruling, the justices acknowledged that legislators applied the state's Open Meeting Law to themselves. This law requires that all meetings of legislative committees conduct
PHOENIX State lawmakers are free to ignore laws they approved requiring public access to their meetings and there s nothing that courts can do about it, the Arizona Supreme Court
State lawmakers are free to ignore laws they approved requiring public access to their meetings and there's nothing that courts can do about it, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday.
State lawmakers can't ignore open meeting laws based on their claims that the law does not apply to them, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. In a split decision, the three-judge panel rejected arguments by attorneys for the legislature that they get to set their own rules. Appellate Judge Jennifer Campbell, writing for .
An attorney with the Phoenix law firm of Ballard Spahr will not stand trial for defamation because the subject of the contested comments waited about six weeks too long to file a lawsuit, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. Jeffrey Peterson sued Dennis K. Burke for defamation in Maricopa County Superior Court in May 2020 based on allegations contained in an April 2019 securities fraud complaint filed by a group of investors against Peterson and others. The Investors’ Complaint was amended in May 2020. Court records show Burke was identified in both complaints as the source of the investors’ misconduct allegations against Peterson.