Arizona Business Gazette: “A federal appeals court has reinstated an age-discrimination suit filed by ex-employees of a Phoenix company. The three-judge panel unanimously concluded there was sufficient evidence for a jury to conclude that Inland Paperboard and Packaging improperly fired three workers because of their age.”
Courthouse News: “The 9th Circuit . . . refused to reconsider its reinstatement of a lawsuit challenging an Arizona scholarship program funded by tax credits. Taxpayers said the program funnels public money into religious schools in violation of the Constitution’s separation of church and state. The program, established by the state Legislature in 1997, gives taxpayers a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for contributions to “school tuition organizations,” or private nonprofit groups that allocate at least 90 percent of their funds to tuition grants and scholarships.”
Arizona Business Gazette: “A spat between tenants of an Apache Junction mobile-home park and its owner has blossomed into a legal fight over just how quickly residents must file complaints. Attorney Michael Parham is asking Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bethany Hicks to rule that any grievances must be filed with state officials no more than one year after the incident. Parham said that is in line with existing statutes dealing with mobile-home parks, which govern the filing of lawsuits.”
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Phoenix Business Journal: “A settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit filed by six Muslim clerics against US Airways and other parties after they were removed from a flight between Minneapolis and Phoenix in 2006. The imams sued US Airways, the FBI and Minnneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.”
Arizona Republic: “After initially ignoring a request for public records, the state Attorney General’s Office has released a stack of documents to a Peoria couple suing the state over an investigation into whether they had sexually abused their daughters. Defense attorneys for the state and Richard Treon, who represents Lisa and Anthony ‘A.J.’ Demaree, were in court Monday over accusations that the state was withholding and secretly altering records that would clear the Demarees.”
The Demaree’s temporarily lost custody of their children after Wal-Mart reported to authorities that the parents gave Wal-Mart nude pictures of the couple’s young children to develop.