Campbell v. SUPERIOR CT, IN & FOR CTY. OF MARICOPA

JACOBSON, Judge.

This special action questions the propriety of the trial court’s denial of a motion for summary judgment on the grounds that a genuine issue of material fact existed, although the administrative decision engendering the litigation had become statutorily final.

The case comes before us after the trial court’s second denial of a motion for summary judgment. We took jurisdiction of the State’s petition for a writ of prohibition to determine if the trial court was attempting to do an idle thing by proceeding to a trial de novo on matters adjudicated by an administrative agency.…