Arizona procedural guides

Plain-English guides to the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure, each one tied to the rules it relies on. Every rule named in a guide has its own page with the official text.

• Responding to an Arizona complaint: 20 days — and a 10-day grace period built into the default ruleArizona gives 20 days to answer. Its default rule then gives something no other state we cover does: default isn't effective until 10 days after the application, and answering inside that window stops it.
• Setting aside an Arizona judgment: six months, not a yearArizona's relief-from-judgment rule is lettered Rule 60(c), and its outer limit for mistake, new evidence and fraud is six months — half the federal and most-state period.
• Arizona's Rule 26.1 disclosure: you have to hand over your case in 30 daysArizona requires each party to disclose its factual basis, legal theories, witnesses, damages computation and documents within 30 days of the responsive pleading — far more than federal initial disclosures.
• The Arizona motion to dismiss: twenty days, and you must phone the other side firstArizona gives only 20 days to answer, and Rule 12(j) requires a good faith consultation certificate on a motion to dismiss — a call or a meeting, not an email.
• Arizona summary judgment: thirty days to respond, and a separate statement of facts with a page limitArizona Rule 56 gives 30 days to respond and 15 to reply, and requires a separate numbered statement of facts capped at 11 pages for the movant and 17 for the opposition.
• The Arizona motion to compel: there is a faster route you are supposed to try firstArizona Rule 37 is expressly subject to Rule 26(d)'s expedited dispute procedure, and every motion must attach a good faith consultation certificate made by phone or in person.
• Arizona execution: fifteen days before anyone can collect, and no discovery during the stayArizona Rule 62(a) stays execution for 15 days after entry, and Rule 69(c) bars post-judgment discovery during that window unless the court orders otherwise.
• Arizona subpoenas: confer before any motion, and pay for the privilege log you asked forArizona Rule 45 requires a good faith consultation certificate before any motion about a subpoena, makes the requesting party pay for a privilege log, and confines non-party travel to the county or 40 miles.
• Arizona depositions: four categories of witness, and nobody else without agreementArizona Rule 30 lists the only people a party may depose as of right — parties, disclosed experts, treating physicians in malpractice cases and document custodians — and bars a second deposition of anyone.
• Arizona TROs: notice can be refused because notice itself would cause the harmArizona Rule 65 allows a temporary restraining order without notice where prior notice would itself provoke the injury, and gives a defendant a full evidentiary hearing to dissolve a preliminary injunction after answering.
• Arizona dismissal: the clerk can sign the order ending your caseArizona Rule 41 lets a stipulated dismissal order be signed by a judge, a court commissioner, the clerk or a deputy clerk — and a second dismissal of the same claim operates on the merits.

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