Neither a public entity nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment is liable for punitive or exemplary damages.
A.R.S. § 12-820.04
Punitive and exemplary damages; immunity
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Anthony Dewayne Mitchell v. Clarence Dupnik (1996)
Most recently applied in 372 F. Supp. 3d 893 - Spears v. Ariz. Bd. of Regents (March 2019)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.