Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. v. Keegan

OPINION

LANKFORD, Judge.

¶ 1 This case requires us to review a superior court’s decision that some of the questions in a statewide academic test are open to public inspection under Arizona’s public records law. The superior court, exercising special action jurisdiction, granted partial relief to the plaintiff, a newspaper publisher. The court ordered that the defendants, a State officer and State agencies, allow the newspaper to inspect and copy most questions from the first administration of the test known as “AIMS” (Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards).

¶2 Dissatisfied with the superior…