State ex rel. Napolitano v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

JONES, Vice Chief Justice,

dissenting.

¶ 19 I respectfully dissent. In my view, the Counties of Arizona are entitled to intervene in this action as a matter of law. See Rule 24, Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure. The question is not whether permissive intervention should be allowed, but whether the Counties may intervene as a matter of right. The role of the Counties should be governed only by the “basic jurisprudential assumption that the interest of justice is best served when all parties with a real stake in a controversy are afforded an opportunity to be heard.” Hodgson v. United Mine…