Burns v. Ariz. Pub. Serv. Co. (3/4/2021)

March 10, 2021
Arizona Court of Appeals holds that a member of the Corporation Commission lacks authority to individually enforce an investigatory subpoena in a ratemaking case over the opposition of the majority of the Commission.

Bridges v. Nationstar Mortg., LLC (1/14/2021)

March 10, 2021
Arizona Court of Appeals Division One holds that absent an express statement of acceleration in the notice of a trustee’s sale or other evidence of an intent to accelerate, recording a notice of trustee’s sale, by itself, does not accelerate a debt.

Rogers v. Mroz (12/8/2020)

March 8, 2021
Arizona Court of Appeals Division One holds that a political attack ad that states a person “specializes in underage girls and advertises on website linked to sex trafficking” cannot be taken by a reasonable listener as an accusation of a precise and verifiable undisclosed fact that the person was complicit in sexual misconduct with underage girls and was complicit in sex trafficking, and cannot be the subject of a defamation action consistent with the First Amendment.