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Fighting in Courtrooms Across the Country

The Goldwater Institute frequently takes the fight for liberty to court. Through our Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation, we litigate cases and file briefs to advance freedom and defend individual rights across the country, on issues ranging from free speech and property rights to school choice and equal protection under the law, and much more.

We opened the Scharf-Norton Center in 2007, making us the first state-based free-market think tank to deploy a team of lawyers to promote our vision in court. In the decade-plus since, the Institute’s litigation team has advocated for freedom before state supreme courts, federal courts of appeal, and even the U.S. Supreme Court. Here are some of the cases we are working on today:

Case Name & Description
Filing Date
Issue Area
Status
Case Name & Description Protecting a Parent’s Right to Record Government Officials
Pitta v. Medeiros
Filing Date April 3, 2024
Issue Area - Constitutional Rights
Status Last Step:
Filed petition for writ of certiorari in. U.S. Supreme Court.

Next Step:
Await Supreme Court decision of whether to take up case.
Case Name & Description Dismantling ASU’s Discriminatory DEI Regime
Anderson v. Arizona Board of Regents
Filing Date March 19, 2024
Issue Area - Education
Status Last Step:
Filed complaint in Maricopa County Superior Court.

Next Step:
Awaiting opposing party’s response.
Case Name & Description Suing the Biden Administration to Compel Transparency
Goldwater Institute V. U.S. Department of Education
Filing Date February 13, 2024
Issue Area - Education
- Limited Government
Status Last Step:
Filed complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Next Step:
Await opposition’s response.
Case Name & Description Protecting a Small Business Owner’s Private Property Rights
Patel V. Holbrook
Filing Date February 1, 2024
Issue Area - Property Rights
Status Last Step:
Filed complaint.

Next Step:
Await opposition’s response.
Case Name & Description Challenging Phoenix’s Burdensome, Illegal Prevailing Wage Mandate
Associated Minority Contractors of Arizona et al. v. City of Phoenix et al.
Filing Date January 23, 2024
Issue Area - Jobs & Economy
- Limited Government
Status Last Step:
Filed complaint.

Next Step:
Awaiting response.
Case Name & Description Upholding Arizonans’ Right to Hold the Judiciary Accountable
Knight, et al. v. Fontes, et al.
Filing Date January 8, 2024
Issue Area - Constitutional Rights
Status Last Step:
Filed Verified Special Action Complaint in Maricopa County Superior Court

Next Step:
Await government’s response
Case Name & Description Fighting an Illegal Property Tax in Yuma County
Ogston v. Arizona Department of Revenue
Filing Date December 14, 2023
Issue Area - Featured Cases
- Jobs & Economy
- Limited Government
Status Last Step:
Filed Complaint

Next Step:
Awaiting Government’s Response
Case Name & Description Unelected Egg Bureaucrats’ Illegal Power Grab Boils Over
Krueger v. Arizona Department of Agriculture
Filing Date November 16, 2023
Issue Area - Constitutional Rights
- Featured Cases
- Limited Government
Status Last Step:
Filed Complaint

Next Step:
Await AZDA’s Response
Case Name & Description Taking Out the Trash: Goldwater Fights the Garbage Bureaucrats
Hedrick v. Holiday Island
Filing Date August 22, 2023
Issue Area - Constitutional Rights
- Featured Cases
- Jobs & Economy
Status Last Step:
Filed complaint.

Next Step:
Awaiting city's response.
Case Name & Description Fighting New Jersey’s Unconstitutional Assault on Parental Rights
Platkin v. Marlboro Township Board of Education
Filing Date August 14, 2023
Issue Area - Constitutional Rights
- Featured Cases
Status
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