Court Opinion

ID: 9573065
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:47:28.730637+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:36:42.355668
License: Public Domain

FERNANDEZ, Chief Judge,
specially concurring.
I concur in the result solely because of Evergreen’s representation at oral argument that it had presented all its evidence at the hearing on the order to show cause on the issue of whether a binding contract had been entered into between Estes and Equivest. I believe, however, that when a trial court is asked to remove a lis pendens, it should determine only the issue whether the lien is “forged, groundless, contains a material misstatement or false claim or is otherwise invalid.” A.R.S. § 33-420. A determination on the merits of any other issue should await completion of discovery and full presentation of the issues.