$200,000 neighborhood dispute | The Arizona Daily Star ?

Here's a story about Mika Sadai's lawsuit against her HOA. She is one of the leading Arizona activists. There's a photo of her, and on the left you will see a copy of...Privatopia.

A Casas Adobes woman has spent six years - and may have to pay a half-million dollars - fighting her homeowners association in court.
She thinks "HOAs" are so tyrannical she's also taken her fight to the Legislature, where she authored a bill to make it easier to sue them. The governor signed it into law last week, allowing individual homeowners to file suit against an association without support from other neighbors. Mika Sadai, 54, who owns eight homes in the neighborhood, has already racked up $200,000 to hire lawyers to fight the Casas Adobes Terrace Homeowners Association - and her neighbors - over disputes including board control issues and annual fees. And with a judge considering dismissing the case, Sadai could be ordered to pay another $300,000 or so in legal fees to the defendants' lawyers.