Mission Hardwood Co. v. Registrar of Contractors

AMENDED OPINION

FROEB, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a superior court order granting Mission Hardwood Company, Inc. (Mission) attorneys’ fees against the Registrar of Contractors of the State of Arizona (the Registrar), pursuant to A.R.S. § 12-348(A)(3).1

The Registrar argues that the superior court erred because the Registrar’s role in the administrative proceeding, from which the action in the superior court arose, was “to adjudicate a dispute ... between private parties,” within the meaning of A.R.S. § 12-348(F)(1).

We reject the Registrar’s arguments and affirm the superior court order…