Rose Law Group Co-Founder, Court Rich, tells Utility Dive new legislation aimed at halting implementation of Arizona’s new clean energy rules will be bad for business.

By Herman Trabish | Utility Dive Controversial proposed Arizona legislation would impose limits on the authority of the state’s elected utility regulators and make their recent groundbreaking zero-emissions mandate unconstitutional. Senate Bill 1175 expresses longstanding concerns from some lawmakers regarding overreach by the elected Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), stakeholders agreed. But those concerns were aggravated by the ACC’s November approval of …

Gila River Community plans mammoth playground

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Phoenix Rising Football Club.) By Paul Maryniak | Chandler Arizonan The Gila River Indian Community and a Scottsdale development company are poised to begin work on a 3,300-acre sports and entertainment complex at Wild Horse Pass. Sunbelt Holdings President John Graham told the Arizonan that the development, located just south of the Loop 202-I-10 intersection, …

Could legalized sports betting be coming to Arizona?

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents PGA TOUR.) By Mitch Carr | 12News PHOENIX — Two bills – one in each house – are making their way through the Arizona state legislature with the goal of making sports betting and daily fantasy sports legal in Arizona. Jeff Weninger (R-Chandler) TJ Shope (R-Gila/Pinal Counties) are sponsoring the bills, and they hope a …

President Biden taking ‘sensible steps’ on immigration, says Darius Amiri, immigration law chair at Rose Law Group

By Daniel Gonzalez, Rafael Carranza| Arizona Republic President Joe Biden has wasted no time making changes to the nation’s immigration and border policies, many of them a 180-degree reversal of former President Donald Trump’s restrictive policies. On Feb. 2, Biden signed three executive orders. The first creates a task force to help reunite the remaining parents the Trump administration forcibly …

Thousands of Dreamers applied for DACA as Texas ruling looms; a ‘welcome development,’ says Darius Amiri, immigration law chair at Rose Law Group

By Daniel Gonzales | Arizona Republic More than 2,500 young undocumented Dreamers have applied for DACA in recent months, among them Phoenix university student Daniel Hernandez. Hernandez was blocked from applying for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program under the Trump administration, which tried to rescind the program. The DACA program grants temporary protection from deportation and work permits to undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, known as Dreamers. Trump said …

Marijuana and non-citizens — Darius Amiri, immigration law chair at Rose Law Group, sheds light

  By Darius Amiri, Rose Law Group Immigration Dept. Chair Now that Prop 207, Arizona’s Recreational Marijuana law, has passed and recreational licenses are being distributed, there is naturally a lot of buzz surrounding the topic of legal possession and use of marijuana and other cannabis products. As an Immigration lawyer, I am often approached by clients or prospective clients about …

Done deal! EPCOR closes on Johnson Utilities! Rose Law Group Co-Founder Court Rich talks about it in AZCentral

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents landowners and homebuilders working with the ACC to find a utility solution in the Johnson Utilities service area.) By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic EPCOR USA has acquired the troubled Johnson Utilities water and sewer company in the East Valley, ending a decades-long saga between the utility company and regulators that affected tens of thousands …

Pinal County ‘slowly transitioning’ to a manufacturing economy

Photo via Pinal County Board of Supervisors Facebook By Mark Cowling | Pinal Central FLORENCE — It’s exciting to see Pinal County transition from an economy reliant on new homes to one based on manufacturing 21st-century products, Board of Supervisors Chairman Steve Miller said at Friday’s Pinal Partnership meeting. “I think at some point here Pinal County is going to become …

North Peoria luxury apartment proposal shows clash between push for diverse housing and fears over rentals; Jordan Rose, founder and president of Rose Law Group, quoted in AZCentral

Photo courtesy of BMA Architecture (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents The Place at Camino a Lago.) By Joshua Bowling | Arizona Republic North Peoria could see nearly 300 new luxury apartments as part of the city’s drive to diversify its housing options, but some residents are opposed, saying the apartments could bring too much density, traffic and noise to the …