Duff v. Lee

STARING, Presiding Judge:

¶1 By special action, petitioner Claudia Duff, a plaintiff in a personal-injury action valued at less than $50,000, challenges the respondent judge's interlocutory order overruling her "Objection to FASTAR Pilot Program" and denying her "Motion for Arbitration Pursuant to A.R.S. § 12-133." She maintains the Fast Trial and Alternative Resolution Program ("FASTAR") does not apply to her case because at the time she filed her complaint, a published Pima County local rule required § 12-133 arbitration for all civil cases in which "the amount in controversy does not exceed…