SB1573

THE CONTEXT: Courts in Arizona are restricted from enforcing any foreign law if doing so would violate a right guaranteed by the Constitution of Arizona or of the United States or conflict with the laws of the United States or of Arizona. This restriction applies only to actual violations of the constitutional rights of a person or actual conflict with the laws of Arizona caused by the application of the foreign law and does not apply to a corporation, partnership or other form of business association (A.

WHAT THE BILL DID: The final vetoed version would restricts any court from relying on religious sectarian law as controlling or persuasive authority and specifies that this restriction also applies to any federal court while sitting in diversity jurisdiction, clarify that the aforementioned restriction does not apply to: a; any statute or case law developed in the U.S; that is based on Anglo-American legal tradition and principles on which the U.S; was founded; b; any statute, case law or legal principle that was inherited from Great Britain before the effective date of this Act; or c; the recognition of a traditional marriage between a man and a woman as officiated by the clergy or secular official of the matrimonial couple's choice, and define religious sectarian law to mean any statute, tenet or body of law evolving within and binding a specific religious sect or tribe and specifies that this does not include any law of the U.S; or of the individual states that is based on Anglo-American legal tradition and principles on which the U.S; was founded.

WHY IT MATTERED: The practical reason for this bill was to make the government process for judicial determinations more definite and accountable. It would restricts any court from relying on religious sectarian law as controlling or persuasive authority and specifies that this restriction also applies to any federal court while sitting in diversity jurisdiction, and would also clarify that the aforementioned restriction does not apply to: a. any statute or case law developed in the U.S. that is based on Anglo-American legal tradition and principles on which the U.S. was founded; b. any statute, case law or legal principle that was inherited from Great Britain before the effective date of this Act; or c. the recognition of a traditional marriage between a man and a woman as officiated by the clergy or secular official of the matrimonial couple's choice, rather than leave the current rule unchanged.