The Arizona Free Enterprise Club took their complaints about Arizona’s processes for comparing early voting signatures and unstaffed drop boxes to Yavapai County in hopes of getting a favorable decision. It failed today. Superior Court Judge John Napper denied the Plaintiffs’ Motions for Summary Judgment and granted the MSJs filed by the Secretary of State and intervenors. This ends the case short of a trial. The dark money organization challenged the process outlined in both the previous and current Elections Procedures Manual of matching the signature on an early ballot envelope to one of m ..read more

Nomination petition challenges rarely – if, ever – result in sanctions or attorneys’ fees awards. Kari Lake attorney Bryan Blehm decided to expand into these lawsuits this year, and today got sanctioned for basing the lawsuit on a non-existent residency clause in the Arizona Constitution. Butler is running for the House in Legislative District 4. Busch/Blehm contended the Constitution required her to have lived in that district for at least one year. However, the requirement (in statute) is that she needs to have lived in Maricopa County for at least one year. (She has.) Superior Court Judge ..read more

As I close these blog posts, I wanted to both give a table of contents to all of the posts for those that might have missed these and add my own thoughts at the end.  I will say again that I was so very proud of the students that came on the trip and the reflections that they wrote–it really was an honor to be able to do this with them. Our first day posts on Jerusalem included reflections on: Day two included more legal reflections on: Day three was the visit to the south and had posts on: And our final day focusing on ongoing issues, recovery, and resilience: Visiting Hostage Square (a ..read more

If you are a citizen of Arizona, you probably know that driving under the influence is a severe charge here. Whether it’s your first DUI offense, officers may impose severe penalties on you, like heavy fines, driver’s license suspension, or even some days spent in jail. If you face such a panic situation, hiring a ..read more

(This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.) In addition to the 11 Republicans who were initially legitimately serving as Arizona’s Trump slate of electors, the Attorney General has charged seven other individuals. Those people’s names will be released once they are all served. (The only thing we currently know of the 7 yet-unnamed defendants are that 5 of them identify as male and 2 as female.) Washington Post’s Yvonne Wingett-Sanchez has reported that the 7 are “former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christ ..read more

¿Alguna vez te has preguntado si existe una manera infalible de salvaguardar y proteger tu negocio y tus bienes de posibles demandas? ¡No estás solo! La verdad es que no existe un método infalible para proteger completamente tu LLC de amenazas legales. Sin embargo, existen medidas estratégicas inteligentes que puedes tomar para minimizar los riesgos, [...] The post PROTEGIENDO TU LLC. 8 ESTRATEGIAS QUE MITIGAN RIESGOS A TU NEGOCIO appeared first on Marcos Law Group ..read more

The Morning Show is a ripped-from-the-headlines drama series about Mitch Kessler, a beloved TV anchor, who is fired for sexual misconduct during the MeToo movement. He’s basically Matt Lauer. As a workplace investigator, I was all in. How would the show portray our line of work? Inaccurately, it turns out! When The Morning Show starts, we learn that Kessler was suddenly fired after the network’s Human Resources department conducted an internal investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. Companies usually don’t have their internal Human Resources departments perform investigations of h ..read more

John Lande received the Outstanding Scholarly Work at the Legal Educators Colloquium Luncheon at the ABA DR conference in San Diego. John, as readers of Indisputably know well, is very deserving of this award. He has written numerous books, articles and blog posts, as a beloved professor at Missouri and in retirement. Brian Pappas gave a heartfelt introduction and reminded attendees about John’s oversized impact on ADR legal education through his scholarship and thoughtful analysis of numerous subject matter areas. John gave a great speech thanking the section and encouraging attendees to rea ..read more

I hate those television commercials that encourage you to “Call now!” or risk missing out on some unbeatable deal.  The deal will usually still be there tomorrow.  However, there is one time when “Call now!” makes a lot of sense and that is when you have, or even think you may have, a medical malpractice claim.  If you don’t “Call now,” you may find that it is too late to bring your case or at least too late to get a good lawyer to agree to take it for you. Good medical malpractice lawyers don’t take every case that comes their way.  They literally cannot afford to do so ..read more

Because scholars have academic freedom, we can write about anything we want, without direction by deans or clients.  So our choice of topics and perspectives is a good indicator of what we really care about. Over the years, I was struck by the eclectic mix of subjects that Elayne Greenberg wrote about.   A common thread in many of her writings was a pragmatic concern for righting injustices and improving processes in dispute resolution. I copied her webpage to preserve it, assuming that her school will take it down eventually.  It describes her research as follows: Profess ..read more