Category: Arizona State Law Journal Blog

By Spencer Shockness. Who can take a sunrise? Sprinkle it with dew? Add a taste of chocolate and make an e-cigarette or two? Not the Candy Man, nowadays, but the large vape brands can. The modern state of the tobacco…

By Sean Krieg. In October 2021, the Mayor, Councilmembers, and City Manager of Mesa received a threat. It was not sent by an anonymous troublemaker nor was it from a disgruntled citizen. Instead, it was sent by three members of…

By Gabriela Berigan. In 2019, Arizona Public Service (APS) filed a Rate Application with the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), in which APS requested an increase to the  rate it can charge customers for usage. It requested an increase of around…

By Alicia Curti. Does copyright law apply to data stored by automobile dealers? The Ninth Circuit addressed this question in CDK Global v. Brnovich, which arose from a new state law requiring automobile dealerships to share certain data with third…

By Dewey Warner. On October 29, the Supreme Court agreed to hear West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. The case, a consolidation of four cases brought by coal and energy companies and Republican-led states, will scrutinize the power of the…

By Ben Martin. WikiHow’s fantastic How to Get Out of a Gym Contract reads with the regulatory complexity you might expect from a law class on energy or taxes. And yet it's a complexity that the consumer may encounter when…

By Stefan Oakley. The Arizona Supreme Court, in Dinsmoor v. City of Phoenix et al., ruled that schools do not typically owe a duty of care to students who experience violence and/or injury after school. Rather, the duty a school…

By Joanna Jandali. [TW: this blog post contains graphic descriptions and content related to suicide.] “Notice of Impending Death.” This was the title of a handwritten message sent to a federal district court judge on August 29, 2017. The author,…

By Sarah Doberneck. Defective products pose a risk of personal injury and property damage to consumers. Because of this, manufacturers and sellers have been held liable for injuries arising from these items for well over a century. Yet, as technology…

By Julianne Baggett. On October 18, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two per curiam opinions extending qualified immunity protections to law enforcement officers accused of using excessive force—one case coming from the Ninth Circuit and the other from the…