Rogers v. Board of Regents of the University of Arizona

How courts have described this case

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

• “A statute of limitations defense to a quiet title action turns on whether the claimant asserts a possessory interest in the land.”
• “A quiet title action seeks a judicial determination of adverse claims in order to clear title of the disputed property.”
• “This court has held . . . that A.R.S. § 12–821 extends to claims for declaratory relief.”
• “Here . . . Schugg does not have a legal interest in the disputed property and he is barred from establishing such an interest in [Smith-Enke] Road.”
• “[T]he quiet title statute requires the court to enter judgment on behalf of a plaintiff against a defendant who cannot enforce a real property interest because the defendant’s action is barred by limitation.”
• “When a complaint asserts a claim for declaratory relief, the court looks for affirmative conduct by a party that removes the claim from the realm of mere possibility and creates an actual controversy.” (internal quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).