Legal Opinion
For Deannexation v. City of Goodyear
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided June 20, 1989No. 1 CA-CIV 88-110PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JACOBSON, Judge.
The City of Goodyear (Goodyear) appeals from a judgment that permitted deannexation of a portion of Goodyear’s city limits pursuant to 1986 Ariz.Sess.Laws ch. 45, § 4, as amended by 1986 Ariz.Sess.Laws ch. 414, § 1 (deannexation law). The sole issue we reach on appeal is whether the act giving rise to the deannexation is a “local or special” law and therefore unconstitutional.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
In the 1970’s and 1980’s a spate of municipal annexations occurred in Arizona that appeared to have no relationship to legitimate municipal concerns. See Glick v. Town of…
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