Forty-Seventh Legislature v. Napolitano

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a dispute over “[l]imiting the actions of each branch of government to those conferred upon it by the constitution” makes it “one of those rare cases that justify the exercise of our special action jurisdiction”
• finding that “[tjhis Court has original jurisdiction to issue extraordinary writs against state officers,” including the governor
• ruling legislators had standing even if they did not try to override the Governor’s veto
• stating that “[a]lthough each branch of government must apply and uphold the constitution, our courts bear ultimate responsibility for interpreting its provisions”
• noting that courts are ultimately responsible for interpreting the constitution
• “[D]etermin[ing] whether a branch of state government has exceeded the powers granted by the Arizona Constitution . . . traditionally falls to the courts to resolve.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).