SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has ruled a Utah county violated the rights of two men who were targeted using an injunction restricting the actions of suspected gang members. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the ruling in U.S. District sided with Leland McCubbin and Daniel Lucero of Ogden, who […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has ruled a Utah county violated the constitutional rights of two Ogden men charged under a gang injunction. The Ogden Standard-Examiner reports U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups recently ruled Weber County’s injunction process lacked adequate due process to get a hearing before charges and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has heard arguments in a public records case that pits a newspaper against Brigham Young University. Friday’s hearing was the culmination of a three-year battle between the Salt Lake Tribune and the university. A BYU attorney argues that because the school’s […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that partisan state school board elections are constitutional, overturning a 2017 district court decision. The unanimous Wednesday ruling reinstates a 2016 law allowing people who want to run for the state Board of Education to file as partisan candidates […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a state law that replaced the voter-approved law legalizing medical marijuana. The court Tuesday dismissed the petition by The People’s Right group that argued the governor and the state Legislature acted unconstitutionally when they replaced the […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A Utah death-row inmate is heading back to court to determine if he had ineffective legal counsel and if The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meddled in his 2015 trial. The Standard-Examiner reports 61-year-old Douglas Lovell will be back in an Ogden courtroom starting Monday over […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court says language in a state law that prevented gay couples from reaching a workable agreement with a surrogate to bear their child is unconstitutional. The Deseret News reports an opinion released by the high court Friday threw out that section of law because […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has rejected arguments that defense attorneys were ineffectual for a man convicted of sexually abusing two women. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday that the court has upheld the convictions of Keith Robert Vallejo, a former bishop for the Church of Jesus Christ […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has struck down part of a law that allowed a state panel to block malpractice lawsuits from reaching the courtroom. The court ruled last week that it is unconstitutional for the panel under the state Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Supreme Court has ruled a man who suffered a knee injury in a church-sponsored basketball game can’t sue an opposing player over a common foul. Judd Nixon says he hurt his left knee in a 2012 game at a Church of Jesus Christ […]
