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Vol. 11, No. 9 October 2015
National Adoption Day
Maricopa County expects to lead the nation again in adoptions at this
year’s 16th Annual National Adoption Day, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015
at the Juvenile Court Center located at 3131 W. Durango St. in Phoenix. The
public is welcome to attend this free event and can expect appearances from
well-known local figures as well as sports team mascots and other supporters of
this family-friendly celebration.
Judges, as well as clerk and court staff, work with other volunteers to
prepare for and carry out the event each year, which has been the largest of
its kind in the country for several years. The deadline for filing an adoption
petition to take part in the event is Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. The deadline for
all other adoption paperwork is Friday, Oct. 30, 2015 to participate in the
National Adoption Day events in November. For questions regarding this year’s
adoption event and for more information, see the Facebook page for the Maricopa
County National Adoption Day Foundation.
Subpoena Catch-22
There are situations where wireless cell phone companies and their
subsidiaries deliver subpoenaed materials to the court or Clerk’s Office. The
wireless carriers’ policies require this in situations where their legal
departments have determined judicial review is appropriate. As well-intentioned
as those policies may be, they do not comply with the terms of the subpoena and
cannot create an obligation for in-camera or ex parte judicial review. The
Clerk’s Office does not have an agency relationship with parties to cases or
the resources to manage and distribute materials that do not comply with a
subpoena. This loop can result in materials bouncing back and forth, increasing
costs, and delaying discovery.
If you are concerned about compliance with a subpoena or notice that
materials are not being received timely from a wireless carrier, you may need
to proactively contact them to compare expectations and resolve receipt of the
materials. The Clerk’s Office has contacted wireless companies, highlighted its
concerns, and requested those companies to follow the requirements of each
subpoena.
Commercial Court Experimental
Rule Amended
Supreme Court Administrative
Order 2015-86 further amended and restyled experimental civil rule 8.1 that
applies to cases in the commercial court. The commercial court is a three-year
pilot program that went into effect in the Superior Court in Maricopa County on
July 1, 2015. Read the Order and amended rule online at http://www.azcourts.gov/Portals/22/admorder/Orders15/2015-86.pdf.
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