Arizona case paths
Where you stand in the case decides which tools and which law apply. Find your situation; the path is yours to take.
I was just served
Twenty days — computed with Arizona's under-11-day twist handled for you. See Rule 8(b) in its own words, and what silence admits (8(b)(6)).
I'm suing a government
Arizona's loudest trap: the notice of claim must be FILED within 180 days — with facts AND a specific settlement amount — and the whole action dies at one year. Two clocks, both shorter than every ordinary limitation.
I'm deciding how to respond
Answer, or move first? The 12(g)/(h) architecture decides what survives: one motion, everything available in it, or the (b)(2)–(5) defenses are gone.
We're in discovery
Disclosure first (Rule 26.1 — your case, shown unasked), the tier budget (26.2), proportionality in the scope itself, and the Mirror reading your drafts like the other side.
A dispositive motion is coming
Arizona structured the rescue: the titled Request for Rule 56(d) Relief with the rule's own factor list and an expedited hearing.
There's a judgment
Appealability from § 12-2101's own menu; the stay bond set by statute (the § 12-2108 triple-lesser); then the garnishment machine — exemptions shown first.
It's an eviction
The RPEA's scripted, fast track — the initial appearance is the hearing, and the loaded eviction rules carry the script.
It's a specialized matter
Anti-SLAPP (§ 12-751 — and only 12-751), medical-malpractice presuit certification, county-conditional arbitration, special actions, garnishment — each runs its own cited machine.