By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via The Daily Courier
Attorneys for Snowbowl are warning the Arizona Supreme Court that if they don’t overturn a ruling allowing the Hopi Tribe to sue over artificial snow they are opening the door to a flood of litigation.
In legal filings with the state’s high court, the lawyers contend the Court of Appeals effectively created a new law — one they claim has no precedent — by permitting the tribe to claim it is suffering a “special harm’’ from allowing the use of treated effluent on the site owned by the U.S. Forest Service. That February ruling, unless overturned, gives the tribe a chance to make their case to a jury.
