Apartment owners, landlords challenge state’s moratorium on evictions; Rose Law Group litigator Olen Lenets says moratorium has ‘rational basis.’

By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter Apartment owners and other landlords are challenging Arizona’s moratorium on evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Arizona Multihousing Association, Manufactured Housing Communities of Arizona and some individual rental property owners are asking the Arizona Supreme Court to overturn the state’s eviction moratorium that protects tenants adversely impacted by COVID-19 and its …

Recreational cannabis added to Arizona General Election ballots; Rose Law Group Partner and Cannabis Department Director Adam Trenk comments

By Zulekha Pitts | AZFamily Looks like Arizona voters will see recreational marijuana on the ballot in November. Secretary of State Katie Hobbs tweeted the news Monday night. Thanks to signatures submitted by Smart and Safe Arizona, a citizens initiative to legalize cannabis for adult use in the state, recreational marijuana will be on the ballot. “After review, the petition …

Ruling sets up renewable energy fight between Corp Comm, lawmakers, Rose Law Group co-founder Court Rich quoted

 By Jeremy Duda | AZ Mirror   The Arizona Supreme Court may have opened the door to allowing the legislature to overrule the Corporation Commission on renewable energy standards, a longtime goal of some conservative lawmakers who dislike the mandates imposed on electrical utilities.   On July 31, the court upheld the commission’s decision to appoint an interim manager for …

New DHS rules for businesses to reopen, says Rose Law Group attorney Thomas Galvin

By Thomas Galvin | Rose Law Group Reporter Yesterday, the Arizona Department of Health Services announced new rules for several industries that have been shut down during the Covid-19 pandemic. The new rules have been promulgated in response to the recent lawsuit involving the state and Mountainside Fitness. Specifically, gyms and fitness centers, bars and nightclubs, waterparks and tubing, and movie theaters will …

Arizona launches program to assist rental property owners; a welcome relief, says Rose Law Group Partner, Transactional Dept. Director Cameron Carter

        By AZRE | AZ Big Media   Applications for Arizona’s Rental Property Owner Preservation Fund, providing assistance to rental property owners across the state who are facing a loss of rental income due to COVID-19, opened today.  Governor Doug Ducey announced $5 million for this Fund last month. All applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the entire amount is awarded.   …

Trump’s executive orders: Payroll tax deferral. Rose Law Group attorney Dan Gauthier outlines what this “payroll tax holiday” could mean for employers.

By Daniel Gauthier | Rose Law Group Reporter Over the weekend President Trump signed four executive orders providing COVID-19 related relief to Americans. The President’s actions come as Congress continues to negotiate – and fails to agree on – the next round of COVID-19 stimulus funding. Contained in one of the executive orders is a payroll tax deferral for certain American workers …

RLG Immigration Chair Darius Amiri Updates on USCIS Fee Hikes

By Darius Amiri| Rose Law Group Reporter In this analysis, we are discussing the recently announced proposed fee increases to many immigration applications proposed by the USCIS. USCIS is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, they’re a division of the Department of Homeland Security. They are the agency that’s in charge of handling immigration applications here in the United …

HealthyVerify helps schools with ‘everchanging’ COVID-19, reopening landscape

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents HealthyVerify Certification) By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter For Rick Ogston, the CEO of Desert View Schools in Yuma, one of the biggest challenges for his charter schools during the COVID-19 pandemic has been all the changing information and approaches to curbing the virus. “Really, it has been the everchanging information about COVID. …

Gompers prepares to reopen to serve developmentally disabled population

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents HealthyVerify Certification.) By AZ Business Magazine | AZ Big Media The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every aspect of everyday life. But for those with developmental disabilities, the effects are even more profound.  Gompers, a Phoenix-based nonprofit, provides a broad spectrum of services to developmentally disabled individuals — but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many of those services …