By Jeremy Duda |Arizona Capitol Times
The Attorney General’s Office and the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest have jointly agreed to dismiss a lawsuit over a self-funding proposal for the Land Department after the state agreed to preserve the group’s ability to re-file the lawsuit after next year’s election.
The agreement will delay though not necessarily prevent a lawsuit over the plan, which will ask voters to approve a proposal to allow the Land Department to use up to 10 percent of the proceeds from the sale of state trust land to fund its operations. The center, a liberal public interest law firm, argued that the plan requires changes not only to the Arizona Constitution but to the congressional enabling act that allowed Arizona to become a state more than a century ago.
