Arizona courts
Arizona's constitution vests the judicial power in an integrated department — and its everyday shape is distinctive: a SINGLE superior court sitting in every one of the fifteen counties, justice courts running the $10,000-and-under civil workhorse lane by precinct, and municipal courts that do NOT hear ordinary civil suits between private parties. The Supreme Court regulates practice itself — the same court whose orders this corpus's rule layer is reconstructed from.
Arizona Supreme Court
The state's highest court; also the regulator of practice itself (Rule 31's practice-of-law framework and the certification programs live under it).
Ariz. Const. art. 6; Ariz. Sup. Ct. R. 31
Court of Appeals — two divisions
A single court of record in two divisions: Division 1 (Phoenix — nineteen judges by statute) and Division 2 (Tucson). Most civil appeals from superior court land here.
A.R.S. § 12-120; § 12-2101
The superior court — one court, fifteen counties
Arizona's single superior court sits in every county; general civil jurisdiction, the tier system, and (where a county adopts it) compulsory arbitration under § 12-133. Local rules exist only with Supreme Court approval.
Ariz. Const. art. 6; Ariz. Sup. Ct. R. 28.1
Justice courts
County precinct courts with civil jurisdiction to $10,000 — the collections, eviction, and small-civil workhorse. Small claims divisions run inside them. Appeals go to superior court.
A.R.S. § 22-201; § 22-261(A)
Municipal courts
City courts for ordinance violations and civil traffic — they do NOT hear ordinary civil suits between private parties.
A.R.S. Title 22 (city courts)
Every structural claim above carries its authority, and the bench numbers render only where a statute states them — the corroboration gate enforces both.