Jeffries v. Hassell

OPINION

WEISBERG, Judge.

¶ 1 Appellees are Arizona taxpayers with children in Arizona public schools. Their complaint alleged that practices of the State Defendants (the “Department”) regarding grazing leases on state trust lands violated the Enabling Act, the Arizona Constitution, and the State’s duties to maximize revenue for the trust beneficiaries, the public schools of Arizona. Appellees requested declaratory and injunctive relief.

¶ 2 The trial court ultimately granted summary judgment to appellees; it found and declared as follows:

THE COURT FINDS AND DECLARES that the State Defendants’…