Valler v. Lee

OPINION

PELANDER, Presiding Judge.

This special action arises from the aftermath of a compulsory arbitration proceeding conducted pursuant to A.R.S. § 12-133 and the Uniform Rules of Procedure for Arbitration (Uniform Rules), 17B A.R.S. We are asked to decide what effect one defendant’s notice of appeal from the arbitration award has upon a nonappealing codefendant, when the plaintiff did not appeal from the award. We previously accepted jurisdiction of the petition for special action and issued an order granting relief, with this opinion to follow.

Petitioner/plaintiff Glen Valler brought the…