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Arizona Cases and Court Rules
Sources of Arizona Case Law
Arizona Court System
- Courts of Limited Jurisdiction
- Decisions are not generally reported, but information is available from 153 of 180 courts in Arizona at this website maintained by the Arizona Judicial Branch. Public access to court information can be found at http://www.supreme.state.az.us/publicaccess/.
- Trial Courts
- Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County
- Superior Court of Arizona in Pima County
- Court of Appeals
- Division One
- Division Two
- Supreme Court
- home page
Federal Courts for Arizona
See Federal Cases: A Research Guide.
Slip Opinions
Arizona Supreme Court slip opinions , 1998-current, are available on the Court's website.
Slip opinions from the Arizona Court of Appeals are available at each division's website:
Advance Sheets
- Arizona Advance Reports
- KFA2457 .A8
- Cite = 207 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 3
- WL=AZ-CS; LN=AZCASE; LexisNexis Academic
- Arizona Business Gazette (ABG)
- ABG Website
- K1 .B61
- WL = AZ BUSGAZ; LN = NEWS-ARIZ
Reporters
- Arizona Reports
- KFA2445 .A2
- Cite = 50 Ariz. 123
- WL = AZ-CS (1885– ); LN= AZCASE (1898– ) LexisNexis Academic
- Pacific Reporter
- KF135 .P2 P31
- Cite = 109 P.2d 43
Finding Arizona Case Law
Digests
- West's Arizona Digest 2d
- KFA2457 .A7 1991
- Arizona cases from state and federal courts 1866–
- West's Arizona Law Finder
- KFA2461 .W47
- West's Pacific Digest
- KFA135 .P21 P3
Shepard's
- Shepard's Arizona Citations: Cases
- KFA2459 .S53
- Shepard's Arizona Citations: Statutes
- KFA2459 .S5
- LexisNexis Shepard's online (access limited to Law Library)
LexisNexis and Westlaw
Arizona case law is included on both LexisNexis and Westlaw.
- Citators on LexisNexis
- Shepard's
- LexisNexis as a Citator
- Citators on Westlaw
- KeyCite
- Westlaw as a Citator
Arizona Blue and White Book
- KFA2447.4 .A75
Provides parallel citation between (to) Arizona Reports and Pacific Reporter.
Court Rules
- Arizona Rules of Court: State and Federal
- KFA2430 1956 .A2 Rules
- Cite = Ariz. R. Civ. P. 66
- WL=AZRULES LN=AZRULE ALIS = AZ Revised Statutes
- Arizona Rules of Court Annotated
- KFA2429 .A75 Rules
- Arizona Revised Statutes Annotated
- KFA2430 1956 .A2x
- Volumes 16, 17, 17A, 17B
- Arizona Court Rules
- Current Arizona Rules provided by Westlaw.com. Click on AZ Courts Home for Links to recent amendments to the rules that do not yet appear in the current rules and rule change petitions pending before the Supreme Court.
- Court Rule, Forms, and Dockets for Arizona
- State and Federal court rules, forms, and dockets from LLRX. The Court Rules, Forms, and Dockets database is updated by Margaret Berkland.
Other Court Documents
Records and Briefs
- Records and Briefs, Arizona Court of Appeals
- Division 1, Civil 1961- ; Criminal 1965-
Uncataloged LAW MICROFORMS Cite=1 CA-CV 94-0271 Time lag: Up to 2 years
- Division 2, 1965-
Uncataloged LAW MICROFORMS (Microfilm only) Cite=2 CA-CR 94-0506 2 CA-CR Time lag: Up to several years!
- Records and Briefs, Arizona Supreme Court, 1871-
Uncataloged LAW MICROFORMS (Cabinet 39-42) Time lag: Up to several years!
- Records and Briefs of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1986-
KF117.9 9th .A55 LAW MICROFORMS(Cabinet 36) Cite=91-16835 Time lag: 3-4 terms behind
Trial Court Reporters
- The Trial Reporter
- Phoenix, AZ: Trial Reporter, 1968–
- Reports summaries of all Arizona civil jury trials. Central and northern Arizona edition and southern Arizona edition. Not available in libraries open to the public. 602-276-7773
Updated 1/08. Friendly URL: http://www.law.asu.edu/AZcases.
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