PHOENIX — A judge has told ranchers and cities they have no right to intervene in a lawsuit between Attorney General Kris Mayes and a Saudi-owned alfalfa farm in western Arizona.

Judge John Blanchard rejected arguments by the Arizona Farm and Ranch Group Coalition that what he decided about whether Fondomonte LLC is violating state nuisance laws with its pumping of groundwater ultimately affects them. Instead, the judge said this is a fight about one company and the effects of its pumping on a single area of the state. ×

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