(Salt Lake City, UT) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenges Utah’s death penalty. The suit, filed by five inmates who were sentenced to death, argued that the state’s Department of Corrections’ methods to carry out executions by lethal injection and firing squad violated the Utah Constitution. A […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Attorney General’s Office is suing some of the nation’s insulin manufacturers over an alleged pricing scheme. The AG’s Office and State Commerce Department’s Division of Consumer Protection accuse the drug makers and pharmacy benefit managers of conspiring to inflate the price of insulin […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah and 42 other states are teaming up to sue Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta. They claim the tech giant is harming youth mental health with “addictive” features like feeds that scroll endlessly and too many notifications. The federal lawsuit filed in California was […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah is suing TikTok, arguing that the social media app misled people about connections to its Chinese parent company and deceptively claimed the platform is safe. Utah Governor Spencer Cox announced the suit on Tuesday and cited research on social media’s affect on adolescents, including […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is trying to overturn a recent court decision to reinstate a fraud lawsuit against the church. Attorneys for the church filed a petition for the full Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review last month’s decision […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A lawsuit filed in federal court aims to keep former President Donald Trump off the Utah ballot in 2024. A Texas attorney and longshot Republican presidential candidate John Anthony Castro is suing to bar Trump from the ballot . Castro argues that Trump’s role in […]
(Escalante, UT) — Two national monuments in southern Utah aren’t going to shrink in size anytime soon. A federal judge made the decision to throw out a lawsuit Friday that was filed last year by several state leaders, including Governor Spencer Cox and Attorney General Sean Reyes. The move was […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s law requiring pornography websites to verify the ages of users is still in force after a federal judge threw out a lawsuit challenging it. U.S. District Court Judge Ted Stewart on Tuesday dismissed the suit brought by an adult entertainment industry trade group. In […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The state Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the Legislature has essentially unreviewable power to draw a map of Utah’s congressional districts that watered down the votes of Democrats. In 2021 the Republican-dominated Legislature created a map that carved up Democratic-leaning Salt Lake County […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Attorney General’s Office is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed attempting to block the state’s new online age-verification law. Lawyers for the state say the Free Speech Coalition is suing the wrong people, noting that the new law allows […]
