Judge overturns order on opioid settlement funds

By Howard Fischer | Arizona Capitol Times

The state now has the go-ahead to immediately take $115 million in funds from an opioid settlement to balance the budget.

And Attorney General Kris Mayes says she won’t fight it – at least not now.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah, an appointee of former Gov. Janet Napolitano, late Monday dissolved a temporary restraining order that Mayes had obtained just days ago barring Gov. Katie Hobbs and the state Legislature from diverting the funds. The judge said it is not clear that the attorney general has such a power to ignore the budgetary mandate which is state law.

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