Opinions

Opinions

 

Supreme Court

Sandra Day O'Connor served as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1981 to 2006. This page lists the opinions she wrote during her time on the court.

Post Retirement Opinions

After her retirement from the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor continued to hear cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as a designated judge.

Arizona Appellate Court Opinions

Sandra Day O'Connor served as a judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals from 1980 to 1981. This page lists the opinions she wrote during her time on the state bench.

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State v. Blevins

O’CONNOR, Judge.Based on events arising out of a collision between an automobile and a motorcycle in the early morning hours of May 27, 1978, Tennis Brian Blevins was charged with vehicular manslaughter in violation of […]

State v. Schoonover

O’CONNOR, Judge. Pursuant to the terms of a written plea agreement, Eldon Everett Schoonover pled guilty to a charge of sexual assault, a class 2 felony, in violation of A.R.S. ss 13-1401, 13-1406, 13-701, 13-702, […]

State v. Morgan

O’CONNOR, Judge. Appellant was convicted of one count of assault with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument in violation of A.R.S. ss 13-1203(A)(2) and 13-1204(A)(2) and (B), following a trial by jury. She was sentenced […]

Parkway Mfg. v. Industrial Commission of Arizona

O’CONNOR, Judge. This special action is taken from an Industrial Commission award which set aside a carrier’s notice of claim status discharging the respondent employee with no permanent disability after a reopening of his claim, […]

Food Products Corp. v. Industrial Commission of Arizona

O’CONNOR, Presiding Judge. The sole issue in this special action review of an Industrial Commission award is whether the administrative law judge correctly determined that the respondent employee’s injury arose out of and in the […]

Owens v. Industrial Commission of Arizona

O’CONNOR, Presiding Judge. The issue presented in this Industrial Commission special action is whether the administrative law judge was correct in determining that petitioner had no residual permanent impairment, physical or mental, attributable to a […]

State v. Gessner

O’CONNOR, Presiding Judge. In 1976 Douglas Joe Gessner was charged by information with one count of first degree burglary in violation of A.R.S. ss 13-301 and 13-302, and with one count of grand theft in […]

Hughes Aircraft Co. v. Industrial Commission of Arizona

O’CONNOR, Presiding Judge. The issue in this special action review of an Industrial Commission award is whether the administrative law judge correctly determined that the respondent employee’s industrially caused allergic contact dermatitis is a permanent […]

D.E.S. Youth Conservation Corps v. Industrial Commission of Arizona

O’CONNOR, Presiding Judge. Petitioners, D. E. S. Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) and the State Compensation Fund, have brought this Industrial Commission special action to challenge an award finding compensable an injury sustained by respondent employee […]

Miller v. Arnal Corp.

O’CONNOR, Presiding Judge. This is an appeal from a denial of a motion for new trial following a jury verdict against the appellant and in favor of appellee in an action alleging that the appellee […]

Western Cas. And Sur. Co. v. International Spas of Arizona, Inc.

O’CONNOR, Judge. This is an appeal from the granting of a summary judgment in favor of appellee, the plaintiff in the trial court, and from the denial of appellant’s motion for new trial. The sole […]

Hunter v. Industrial Commission of Arizona

O’CONNOR, Presiding Judge. This special action is from a determination by the Industrial Commission closing petitioner’s industrial claim with a finding of no permanent disability. Specifically, the issue is whether an industrially caused condition known […]

Franco v. Industrial Commission of Arizona

O’CONNOR, Presiding Judge. The issue raised in this Industrial Commission special action is whether a voluntary retirement of an injured workmen’s compensation claimant is grounds for a readjustment of his loss of earning capacity benefits. […]

Bloom v. Fry’s Food Stores, Inc.

O’CONNOR, Judge. The plaintiff-appellant, Harry Bloom, slipped and fell in one of the appellee’s self-service supermarkets. Appellant alleged that he slipped on a grape and that appellee was negligent in stacking bunches of grapes loosely […]

St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center v. Maricopa County

O’CONNOR, Judge. The appeals in this action are from a summary judgment entered by the trial court in favor of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (St. Joseph’s) and against Maricopa County, for the sum […]