Grijalva v. Arizona State Compensation Fund

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “ ‘artful contrivances’ should not be permitted to reduce or extinguish legitimate hen rights”
• explaining that a lien under A.R.S. § 23-1023 attaches when a third-party claim is settled, even if the defendant was not “actually culpable”
• observing that \it is uncertainty about the result that most often leads to settlement\
• \[C]ommon sense tells us that the defendants would not have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlement if a favorable outcome could have been unerringly predicted.\

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