Cox Arizona Publications v. Collins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that Arizona’s rules of Professional Conduct for attorneys permit certain, but not all, interactions with the media relating to pending cases
• burden on public official resisting disclosure of public records “to overcome the legal presumption favoring disclosure”
• “Whether the denial of access to public records is wrongful is an issue of law which we review de novo.”
• “Whether the denial of access to public records is wrongful is an issue of law which we review de novo.”
• also providing that “trial court’s finding that a custodian has acted in bad faith, arbitrarily or capriciously will be upheld unless clearly erroneous”
• also providing that “trial court’s finding that a custodian has acted in bad faith, arbitrarily or capriciously will be upheld unless clearly erroneous”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).