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PETITIONERS FOR DEANNEXATION v. GOODYEAR

No. 1 CA-CIV 88-110.

160 Ariz. 467 (1989)

773 P.2d 1026

PETITIONERS FOR DEANNEXATION in re Petition for Deannexation from the City of Goodyear, Petitioners-Appellees, v. CITY OF GOODYEAR, a municipal corporation; Maricopa County, a political subdivision of the State of Arizona; Max McCully, an individual; Wanda Sanders, an individual; and Gail Piggett, an individual, Respondents-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department B.

Review Granted June 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Snell & Wilmer by Lonnie J. Williams, Jr., and Jeffrey Messing, Phoenix, for petitioners-appellees.

Tom Collins, Maricopa County Atty. by John W. Paulsen, Phoenix, for respondent-appellant Maricopa County.

Bill Stephens & Associates, P.C. by Richard A. Alcorn, and Dennis A. Sever, Phoenix, for respondents-appellants.

Thomas R. Judd, Goodyear City Atty., Goodyear, for respondent-appellant City of Goodyear.

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.

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