MARICOPA COUNTY v. TINNEY

No. CV-95-0070-SA.

183 Ariz. 412 (1995)

904 P.2d 1236

MARICOPA COUNTY, a body politic and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Tom Rawles, Don Stapley, Betsey Bayless, Ed King, and Mary Rose Garrido Wilcox, Petitioners, v. Hon. William H. TINNEY, Judge, Hon. C. Kimball Rose, Presiding Judge and Hon. Daniel A. Barker, Judge, Judges of the Superior Court of the State of Arizona, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arizona.

November 9, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Romley, Maricopa County Attorney by William P. French, Special Deputy County Attorney, Jessica Gifford Funkhouser, Shawn H. Nau, Dean M. Wolcott, Christopher C. Keller, Deputy County Attorneys, Phoenix, for Petitioners.

Roush, McCracken & Guerrero by Charles D. Roush, and Warner Angle Roper & Hallam, P.C. by Jerry L. Angle, Jerome K. Elwell, Phoenix, for Respondents.


OPINION

ZLAKET, Justice.

The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, battling a 67 million dollar deficit, imposed a county-wide "hiring freeze" on December 14, 1994. Exemptions from this freeze required a showing of individual necessity for each position to be filled with a new employee.

Two weeks following enactment of this policy, the Presiding Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, C. Kimball Rose, submitted requisition forms for several...

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