SUPREME COURT OF ARIZONA

STATE OF ARIZONA, ex rel. MARK ) Arizona Supreme Court

BRNOVICH, Attorney General, ) No. CV-20-0019-SA
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Petitioner, )
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v. )
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CITY OF PHOENIX, ) FILED: 04/02/2020
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Respondent. )
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O R D E R

The Court, en banc, considered at its conference on April 1,

2020, the petition for mandatory special action under A.R.S § 41-

194.01(B)(2) filed by the State of Arizona ex rel. Mark Brnovich,

Attorney General, the Response to Petition for Special Action filed

by respondent City of Phoenix, the Reply to Response filed by

petitioner Brnovich, multiple briefs filed by amici curiae, and

responses to the amicus briefs filed by the parties. The Court

unanimously finds the Ordinance at issue, § 4-78 of City of Phoenix

Ordinance G-6650, constitutional. Therefore,

IT IS ORDERED denying relief on the petition for special action.

The stay of enforcement of the Ordinance is hereby lifted. A written

opinion will issue in due course.

DATED this 2nd day of April, 2020.

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ROBERT BRUTINEL
Chief Justice
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TO:
Mark Brnovich
Brunn W Roysden III
Oramel H Skinner
Linley Wilson
Keena Patel
Jean-Jacques Cabou
Alexis E Danneman
Matthew R Koerner
Margo R. Casselman
Mary R O'Grady
Joseph N Roth
Patrick Irvine
Grady Gammage Jr
Cameron C Artigue
Daniel Reimer
Erin Adele Scharff
Timothy Sandefur
Matthew Robert Miller
Susan M Freeman
W. Eric Pilsk
J Mark Ogden
Mark Kokanovich
Daniel A Arellano
Ian O Bucon
Andrew J McGuire
Samantha Winter McAlpin
Trish Stuhan
John D Wilenchik
Joshua C Offenhartz
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