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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) - Arizona's supreme court has delivered a blow to plaintiff lawyers hoping to use FDA regulations to satisfy the requirement for an expert in medical malpractice cases.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) - Reversing a decades-old precedent in a case involving a mother who murdered her twin boys, the Arizona Supreme Court said mental-health professionals can’t be held liable for failing to warn third parties about the risk of harm from a patient under their care.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – Trial lawyers are celebrating a recent Arizona Supreme Court ruling that allows certain lawsuits against car-makers to move forward.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) - A bar’s liability for alcohol-induced car crashes doesn’t end when a drunken patron gets safely home, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled, reversing the dismissal of a lawsuit over a fatal accident that occurred after a man drove home, fell asleep, then decided to get back in his truck again.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) - An Arizona school district and its employees aren’t liable for a tragic incident in which a student shot his girlfriend and killed himself at a friend’s house after school, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled for a Gila County deputy sheriff who watched a man who pointed a shotgun in his face be shot dead by colleagues, then developed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Court of Appeals decision reversed in favor of Medicaid patients
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) — The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that a tribal entity did not prove it is entitled to share in a tribe's sovereign immunity, and subsequently that a superior court did not err when it denied an business' motion to dismiss a lawsuit.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – Arizona's highest court has ruled that a Christian-owned design studio’s custom-made invitations are a form of free speech and the city of Phoenix cannot force it to create invitations for same-sex weddings.
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PHOENIX – The Arizona Supreme Court recently unanimously reversed an appellate court’s decision regarding a negligence lawsuit against Encanto Adventures, the operator of Phoenix’s Picnic Island amusement park, saying Encanto is not immune from liability under the state’s recreational use statute.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court for the State of Arizona held on Dec. 18 that federal law does block a lawsuit arising from allegations concerning the state’s common law failure-to-warn claim after a medical device company allegedly didn’t inform the Food and Drug Administration about unfavorable conditions in a medical device.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – Because a woman was awarded Workers’ Compensation benefits in a different state that doesn’t have automatic assignment provision, on Jan. 2, the Supreme Court for the State of Arizona reversed the decisions of two lower courts.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – Despite the dissent of two Justices, the Supreme Court of Arizona has upheld a lower court decision over a public nuisance claim filed by the Hopi Tribe against a resort’s use of wastewater for snow making.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – Arizona’s Supreme Court has issued a written explanation of its decision in a case that called into question the validity of a petition regarding a rejected renewable energy ballot measure.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of the State of Arizona has affirmed a trial court’s decision, saying petition circulators for a disqualified amendment should appear in court when they are given a subpoena.
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PHOENIX — Proposition 306, the "Clean Election Account Uses and Commission Rulemaking Measure," will remain on Tuesday's ballot in Arizona, following a decision handed down by that state Supreme Court.
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Roy Herrera, who served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Phoenix, has joined Ballard Spahr in the firm's Litigation Department, Phoenix Office Managing Partner John G. Kerkorian announced.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – Three patients who claimed negligence by a doctor during surgery can continue their independent claim against the hospital where the procedure took place, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled.
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PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) — Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich recently announced that the Arizona Supreme Court unanimously held that Maricopa County Community College District cannot grant in-state tuition benefits to DACA recipients.
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The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled companies should not be held liable for damages allegedly related to secondary asbestos exposure.
