Arizona Litigation Archives - Page 19 of 40

Homebuilder Pulte Homes Sues the Arizona Attorney General

The Arizona Attorney General does not want to spend money to challenge Obamacare, but doesn’t mind paying to hire a Washington, D.C., law firm to chase Pulte Homes. Pulte Homes sued the Arizona Attorney General. A story in the Arizona Republic says, “In Pulte’s lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the homebuilder is alleging the outside counsel hired by the Arizona attorney general has ties to the Laborers’ International Union of North America. The suit says that union has targeted Pulte and other homebuilders with a ‘harassment campaign’ to force the builders’ subcontractors to join the union.” A spokesperson for the Arizona AG says that the AG is investigating Pulte Homes as a result of complaints related to its home loan business. Pulte Homes issued this press release about the lawsuit:

The states of Arizona and Nevada have taken the unusual step of outsourcing their investigations to a District of Columbia law firm. The firm, Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll, which holds itself out as a ‘pioneer in plaintiff class-action lawsuits,’ has a conflict of interest because it also represents private parties, including a labor union, in matters adverse to the company (Pulte) and other homebuilders.”

Court Ruling Expected Soon on If Arizona Fish Police Can Prohibit Carp Pedicures

Despite the huge budget problems facing Arizona, the State has dedicated valuable resources to protecting the citizens of Arizona from a dangerous procedure that threatens young and old alike – serious bodily harm inflicted by carp fish. The Arizona fish police, aka the Arizona Board of Cosmetology, busted Phoenix salon owner Cindy Vong for using carp fish to give her customers pedicures. Perhaps the carp were underage or maybe Cindy was treating them as independent contractors when the carp were clearly employees. The breed of fish Cindy used was the Garra rufa fish, and they possibly were undocumented workers. Nevertheless, the Arizona fish police said Cindy could not give customers pedicures by immersing their feet in water while the little fishies gobbled away dead skin. The Goldwater Institute came to Ms. Vong’s rescue and filed a lawsuit on her behalf challenging the fishy fish police order. The Maricopa County Superior Court is expected to rule on the case in the next two months at which time we will know if carp pedicures are banned in Arizona.

Tohono O’odham Nation Sues the Obama Administration

Phoenix Business Journal: “The Tohono O’odham Nation is suing the Obama administration, charging that the U.S. Interior Department is dragging its feet on a proposed casino west of Phoenix. The Native American tribe said Monday it filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Washington asking that the Interior Department be compelled to act on its land and casino application.”

Woman Sues Phoenix Country Club for Discriminating Against Women

Patricia Alston spent a lot of money to become a member of Phoenix Country Club in 2005, but she apparently failed to investigate the club before joining because she sued the Phoenix Country Club for discriminating against women. After becoming a member, Ms. Alston claims she learned that men had certain privileges not given to women such as a men’s grill and men only golf tournaments. Five years after joining the PCC she sued the club to get back the money she paid to become a member. You’d think an intelligent person who was going to pay a lot of money to join an exclusive private social club would have asked a lot of women members and wives of male members about how women members are treated differently than men before joining the club.

This is the second time the Phoenix Country Club has been involved in allegations of sex discrimination in the last few years. In 2007, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard did not have enough on his plate so he took it upon himself to correct what he saw was a very serious state-wide issue – the inability of rich white women to eat in the Phoenix Country Club’s men’s grill with the rich white men, even though the club had a food and beverage area that was for women only.

See the Patricia W. Alston vs. Phoenix Country Club complaint.

Phoenix Area Bankruptcy Filings Up Last Month

Arizona Republic: Phoenix area “Bankruptcy filings climbed in February after a dip in January as more debt-strapped individuals apparently used income-tax refunds to get the ball rolling.”