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    "title": "Arizona's Small Claims Limit",
    "statement": "Five thousand dollars is Arizona's small claims ceiling now, heard without lawyers and without appeal; the justice courts' ordinary civil bench goes to ten thousand. Much of the internet still repeats the old three thousand five hundred figure. The statute moved on.",
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