SCOTTSDALE UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST. v. KPNX

No. CV-97-0112-PR.

955 P.2d 534 (1998)

191 Ariz. 297

SCOTTSDALE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 48 OF MARICOPA COUNTY, Arizona; Avondale Elementary School District No. 44 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Balsz Elementary School District No. 31 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Creighton Elementary School District No. 14 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Dysart Unified School District No. 89 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Glendale Elementary School District No. 40 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Mobile Elementary School District No. 96 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Pendergast Elementary School District No. 92 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Tolleson Union High School District No. 214 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Tempe Elementary School District No. 3 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Gilbert Public Schools of Maricopa County, Arizona; Liberty Elementary School District No. 25 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Peoria Unified School District No. 11 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Paradise Valley Unified School District No. 69 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Mesa Unified School District No. 4 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Phoenix Union High School District No. 210 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Osborn Elementary District No. 8 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Isaac Elementary School District No. 5 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Kyrene Elementary School District No. 28 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Alhambra Elementary School District No. 68 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Cartwright Elementary School District No. 83 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Cave Creek Unified School District No. 93 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Chandler Unified School District No. 80 of Maricopa County, Arizona; Glendale Union High School District No. 205 of Maricopa County, Arizona; and Roosevelt Elementary School District No. 66 of Maricopa County, Arizona, Plaintiffs, Counterdefendants-Appellees, v. KPNX BROADCASTING COMPANY, an Arizona corporation; KPNX Broadcasting Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gannett Broadcasting Company, a division of Gannett Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation; and Kim Stafford, an individual, Defendants, Counterclaimants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.

March 20, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C. by Gary L. Lassen, Gordon Lewis, Phoenix , and Quarles & Brady, by Charles W. Herf and Jennifer N. MacLennan, Phoenix, for Plaintiffs, Counterdefendants-Appellees.

Brown & Bain, P.A. by Daniel C. Barr and Cheryl L. Nackino, Phoenix, for Defendants-Counterclaimants-Appellants.


OPINION

MOELLER, Justice.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

¶ 1 KPNX Broadcasting Co. and one of its reporters, Kim Stafford, ("defendants") requested the twenty-five school districts involved in this case ("plaintiffs") to provide them with the birth dates of all active and substitute public school teachers in the districts. The districts declined to provide the birth dates and, instead, filed a declaratory judgment action in superior court. The court...

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