LegalReader

AUGUST 18, 2021

Last month, a federal judge invalidated a six-year-old settlement which obliged Arizona to provide better health care for inmates. In her ruling, the judge said the state was not making a good-faith effort to live up to its own terms.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that Arizona has not only usurped the federal government's jurisdiction over border policy but actively prevented civil servants from continuing routine work along the U.S.-Mexico Mexico border.

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JURIST

MARCH 11, 2024

The only recourse for resolving transparency-related disputes in these states is for citizens to engage in expensive litigation. While some states like Arizona do provide an ombudsman’s aide who receives complaints, the aide lacks the authority to enforce agency compliance.

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Above The Law

APRIL 24, 2025

Arizona State? Despite the fact that this whole litigation is about blowing up the idea that scholarships are a cure-all for any student harm, the schools decided to wheel out their favorite fig leaf once more for old time’s sake. “Premature implementation of the settlement agreement.”

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Above The Law

MARCH 31, 2025

MassMutual Metro , the Appellate Division, First Department expected some sort of audio-visual presentation as part of the pro se litigant’s argument. They make AI slop in suits — we know that from the Arizona court system’s in-house press nonsense. And it’s not a popular one with the judges! In Dewald v.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In my own defense, the last 25 years of my career has been dedicated to one attorney as a contracted tort litigation paralegal. I use a pre-litigation checklist for new legal assistants in our personal injury practice. Laurie is a transplanted Midwesterner from Indiana to the Arizona desert in 1972.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“Goldwater takes judicial retention case to Supreme Court”: Howard Fischer of Arizona Capitol Times has a report that begins, “An organization that lobbies and litigates for limited government regulation wants the Arizona Supreme Court to give Maricopa County voters more say in who serves on the state Court of Appeals.”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 28, 2022

In some jurisdictions (like Arizona), the jurors are sent questions to answer. One more thing I would say is key for the Criminal Law Paralegal (and all litigation paralegals!) Mary Katherine Mayer is a NALA Advanced Certified Paralegal in Criminal Litigation and the Recording Secretary for the Arizona Paralegal Association.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 15, 2022

In litigation, for example, in a large firm, as a litigation paralegal , you may perform only discovery tasks whereas, in a small firm, you may be handling case intakes, case management, writing demands, filing lawsuits, performing discovery, legal research, motion practice, and trial practice.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has claimed that Arizona's "shoddy election" practices is responsible for her loss.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Arizona's Republican governor agreed to begin removing the temporary border barriers just two weeks before his term expires.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 20, 2022

ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION? If you are new (or fairly new) to litigation, this free guide will help you get a handle on your cases and be able to anticipate what the attorney needs before they ask for it. Laurie Fields is a transplanted Midwesterner from Indiana to the Arizona desert in 1972.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The lawsuit, which sought to overturn the results of Arizona's 2022 race for governor, was dismissed after a two-day trial.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

Meanwhile, the water level at Lake Powell, the massive reservoir created by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Utah-Arizona border, is at historic lows, threatening its ability to generate power. After years of litigation and negotiation, the Nation prevailed in the U.S. The first issue in Arizona v. The 1964 Arizona v.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

NAU professor claims she was treated differently due to her disability.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Arizona resident says her home was destroyed after she called the police for a mental health crisis.

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Diane Drain

MAY 17, 2021

The settlement resolves FTC litigation against the remaining defendants in the case: Student Advocates Team, LLC, Progress Advocates Group, LLC (also doing business as Student Advocates), Student Advocates Group, LLC, Assurance Solutions Services, LLC and individual defendant Bradley Jason Hunt and individual defendant Sean Quincy Lucero.

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LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Its lawyers will not appear in court. ” Leading the firm as managing partner is Andrew R.

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Law 360

APRIL 7, 2023

Catch up this week with a look at how the attorney general election in Arizona could be an example of elections' impact on wage litigation, how private companies can assess social media posts sharing employees' personal views after a controversy involving the Arizona governor's press secretary, and how a spat over whether Starbucks violated labor law (..)

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Law 360

JANUARY 6, 2025

An Arizona federal judge on Monday certified a class of investors accusing Nikola Corp. of inflating its stock price by exaggerating its ability to manufacture electric trucks, ruling that the shareholders have shown their case warrants the class treatment more than four years after they first sued.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The lawsuit seeks compensatory damages of $1 and a court order overturning Bullhead City's ordinance restricting "food-sharing" in public spaces.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Gore (2000), and Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (2015). Even where not done so directly, the Court has repeatedly repudiated the underpinnings of the theory in cases like Smiley v. Holm (1932), Bush v.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In his ruling, the Maricopa County judge dismissed all but two counts from Lake's lawsuit.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The lawsuit claims that Phoenix has violated homeless residents' constitutional rights by seizing their possessions in frequent encampment sweeps.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 23, 2022

Written by Adrian Cordina , PhD researcher at Erasmus School of Law, project member of the Vici project ‘Affordable Access to Justice ’ which deals with costs and funding of civil litigation, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 1) Conference ‘ The Future Regulation of Third-Party Funding in Europe ’.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

The department said it has not opened investigations in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, or Arizona because those states’ bans on universal indoor masking are not being enforced in schools due to litigation or other state action.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 23, 2022

An attorney for failed Republican candidate Abraham Hamadeh admitted in court proceedings that his client simply did not have the votes or evidence needed to move forward with the case.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In her latest lawsuit alleging unproven voter fraud, Lake has effectively asked the court to declare her the winner of an election that she lost by tens of thousands of votes.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The lawsuit accuses two Oath Keepers-associated groups with intimidating voters who try to drop off their loved ones' ballots.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The lawsuit accuses Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, of breaking state law by making a unilateral decision to cut off federal benefits.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Arizona “generally makes it quite easy for residents to vote.” Democratic National Committee set the path for the six-justice majority of the Supreme Court to reject challenges to two Arizona laws. The Democratic National Committee challenged the two Arizona laws. Litigants then moved to Section 2.

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LawSites

JULY 25, 2023

Nextpoint recently became the first e-discovery company to launch a law firm , launching Nextpoint Law Group in Arizona under that state’s liberalized practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. The firm will provide discovery and litigation legal services to other law firms and to corporate legal departments.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support. Disproportionate Impact.

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LawSites

MAY 12, 2021

These are only the second and third non-profit projects to be approved to participate in the sandbox and the first in the nation to empower non-lawyers go give limited-scope legal advice about medical debt, according to Stacy Butler , director of the Innovation for Justice Program at the University of Arizona James E.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The state has been held in contempt of court twice, but still blames the state of its prisons' health-care on private contractors.

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CaseFleet

JANUARY 29, 2024

She’s also a part-time faculty member at Arizona State University, where she teaches a practical skills course called "The Litigation Experience." Debora Verdier serves as the senior partner at Cavanagh Law in a variety of labor and employment disputes.

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