Petitioner: Don Bivens, Chair
Committee: Committee on Civil Justice Reform
Mailing Address: 1501 West Washington Street, Suite 410, Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Phone: 602.452.3242
FAX: 602.452.3480
E-mail:
[email protected] Petitioner requests amendments to rules concerning case management, discovery, and sanctions.
Would amend rules relating to case management, discovery, and sanctions in order to reduce the cost and time required to resolve civil cases in Arizona’s superior courts.
Filed January 10, 2017
Comments due May 22, 2017.
ORDERED: Petition to Amend the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure to Modify Rules 8, 8.1, 11, 16, 26, 26.1, 26.2, 29, 30, 31, 33-37, 45, 45.2; Abrogate Rule 16.3; Adopt New Rules 26.2 and 45.2 and Modify Rule 84 =ADOPTED as modified, effective July 1, 2018.
3/30/2018
IT IS ORDERED that Attachments A and B of the order are amended in the following respects:
(a) In Attachment A, Rule 8.1(e)(5) is changed to delete the words “under Maricopa County Local Rule 3.12,” which appear at the end of the rule.
(b) In Attachment B, Rule 48(b) of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Arizona is changed to read as follows:
(b) Rules of Civil Procedure. Only the following Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure are applicable to discipline and disability proceedings before the presiding disciplinary judge or the hearing panel, as specifically set forth in these rules: Rules 4, 4.1, 4.2, 5, 5.1(e), 5.2(b), 5.3, 6(a), 6(c), 7.1(a), 7.1(b), 8(b)(c)-(e)(f), 10(b)-(c), 11(a)-(d), 12(b), 12(c), 12(d), 12(e), 12(f), 16(a), 16(g)(f)(2)(A-E) and (J)(K), 16(i)(h), 26(a)-(f)(c) and (f)-(h), 29-36,
38.1(b), 42(a), 43-45, 56, 60(b)-(d), 80(a), 80(c), and 80(d).
9/13/2019
SIXTH ORDER AMENDING 8/31/17 ORDER
IT IS ORDERED that the Committee Comment to the 1991 Amendment to Rule 30(a), Rules of Civil Procedure, be deleted as shown in the attachment hereto, effective on this date. (Order can be found in Rule Amendments from Recent Rules Agenda(s))