HowAppealing

MAY 21, 2022

Cox could pick to be the next Utah Supreme Court justice; Justice Thomas Lee is stepping down after a dozen years on the Utah Supreme Court”: Bryan Schott of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report. “Here’s who Gov.

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JULY 27, 2022

“Jill Pohlman on track to become Utah’s next Supreme Court justice; If Judge Jill Pohlman is confirmed by the full Utah Senate, the Utah Supreme Court would see its first female majority”: Emily Anderson Stern of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The United States Supreme Court Monday denied the appeal of Ramin Khorrami, an Arizona man who was convicted of fraud before an eight-member jury. Six states in the US allow for trials before six or eight-person juries in felony cases: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday in favor of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation’s dispute with the state of Idaho regarding the tribe’s hunting rights on US land. Rather, they reside in northern Utah and southern Idaho.

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JUNE 29, 2022

“Utah Supreme Court could see first female majority with new nominee; If confirmed by the Utah Senate, Judge Jill M. Pohlman would mark the third woman on the state’s five-justice high court”: Saige Miller of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to consider whether people born in American Samoa are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. “People from the territories deserve better from this Court and better from this nation.”

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JURIST

JULY 21, 2024

Utah officials declared on Saturday that they switched the execution method for death row inmate Taberon Dave Honie from an experimental three-drug lethal injection to a well-known single-drug injection, according to The Salt Lake Tribute. The experimental injection would have contained Ketamine, Fentanyl and Potassium Chloride.

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LawSites

MAY 12, 2021

Two non-profit pilot programs won approval this week under Utah’s regulatory sandbox to provide non-lawyer legal assistance to individuals with medical debt. Both programs were approved May 7 by the Utah Supreme Court’s Office of Legal Innovation , which oversees the sandbox and reviews and approves applicants.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Eastern Utah wants an oil railroad. The nation’s highest court will decide how feds should judge its environmental impacts. Schneider, The Washington Post) U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

New audits released this week show that Utah’s Adult Probation and Parole agency does not have enough experienced staff or the tools to handle supervision for “high-risk” offenders, Paighten Harkins reports for the Salk Lake Tribune.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A Utah theme park has sued Taylor Swift over who owns the trademark for “Evermore,” Taylor’s latest album. The post Music Monday: Taylor Swift and a Utah Theme Park Battle in Court Over the Name ‘Evermore’ appeared first on THE HOLLYWOOD LAWYER.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2021

While many states have made it easier for prosecutors to criminally charge officers accused in fatal shootings of civilians, Utah has made it harder. The new law allows those accused of a crime to ask for an extra court hearing if they believe they acted in self-defense. “Or investigating further.”. Utah State Rep.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 25, 2025

“Utah lawmakers gave governor power to appoint the Supreme Court chief. Cox says, I must respectfully decline. Spencer Cox vetoed a bill letting him appoint the chief justice, but the Senate would get to re-confirm every four years.” ” Robert Gehrke of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Cox appoints Judge Diana Hagen to serve on Utah’s Supreme Court; The state Senate will now decide whether to confirm Gov. Spencer Cox’s proposed replacement for retired Utah Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas”: Bethany Rodgers of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report. “Gov.

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AUGUST 11, 2024

“Utah Supreme Court Rules That Alleged Sexual Assault by a Doctor Is Not ‘Health Care’; The decision revives a lawsuit filed by 94 women who said their OB-GYN sexually abused them; Previously, a lower court determined that the actions they alleged had to be treated as medical malpractice”: Jessica Miller of The Salt Lake Tribune (..)

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JULY 19, 2022

“BYU Law Welcomes Retiring Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas Lee as Visiting Professor, Linguistics Expert Jesse Egbert as Research Associate for 2022-23”: BYU Law issued this news release today.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In Utah, a death row prisoner has been granted a new trial on the grounds that prosecutors knowingly withheld evidence from the defense.

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JURIST

MAY 1, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday revived a 2003 breach of trust claim by the Navajo Nation that would require the US government to allocate water for the tribe. The lawsuit was previously dismissed in 2017 by the District Court for the District of Arizona for lack of jurisdiction. California.

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CourtTechBulletin

MARCH 11, 2021

Legal technology writer Molly McDonough posted an article about the Utah Outreach Court ( [link] ). That court takes a courtroom to the litigants, in some instances to the homeless person's campsite, using a repurposed mobile command center vehicle and tents. Read more ».

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 30, 2021

“Utah Supreme Court Justice Deno Himonas retires, plans return to private sector; Justice Deno Himonas plans to transition to a major law firm after almost two decades in public service”: Jordan Miller of The Salt Lake Tribune has this report.

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Attorney at Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Utah is in the early stages of a seven-year “regulatory sandbox” pilot program to conduct its own experiment with alternative business structures. Supreme Court. In January 2021, the state eliminated its Rule 5.4. California, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., California, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington, D.C.,

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A district court misinterpreted the law when it ruled that an adult adoptee can’t obtain her 1978 adoption records to provide her doctors with information…

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The International Labour Organization Forced Labour Conventions allow forced prison labor that is limited to punishment for criminals convicted in a court of law as long as convicts are not forcefully hired out to private entities.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. ” Listen: I interviewed Himonas and John R. .”

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Above The Law

JANUARY 29, 2025

In 2020, the Arizona Supreme Court established its Alternative Business Structure (ABS) program which allows nonlawyers to have an economic interest or decision making authority in a law firm. The report claims that this is partially attributable due to the existing ethics rules.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 5, 2021

“10th Circuit Backs Out of Opening Phase of Fight Over Bump Stock Ban; The court’s about-face on an en banc rehearing of a preliminary injunction denial means a Utah man must give up his bump stock while his challenge of the ban goes through the courts”: Amanda Pampuro of Courthouse News Service has this report.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Hong Kong lawyer Jimmy Siu on Friday filed a writ to Hong Kong’s High Court in a petition for the court to order the arrest of five US lawmakers that introduced the Hong Kong Sanctions Act , according to Hong Kong Free Press on Monday.

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APRIL 28, 2022

Temple, from the Supreme Court to Congress; Justice Neil Gorsuch, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Utah Sens. Today, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a news release titled “ US Senators, Representatives and Supreme Court Justices Visit the Washington D.C.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

The court will then hear a former Halliburton employee’s effort to renew his age discrimination suit against the energy company in Waetzig v. EST. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Halliburton Energy Services. Listen live at 10 a.m. 14 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

The Supreme Court held last week that the answer is yes. For Jackson, the key to the case is the reality that under Utah law (the applicable fraudulent conveyance statute), the creditors of the failed business could not recover from the IRS, because the IRSs sovereign immunity would protect it from a suit under the Utah statute.

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ABA Journal

MARCH 14, 2022

Supreme Court can be damaging to the institution. Thomas spoke in Utah at… Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday talk about adding justices to the U.S.

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JURIST

JUNE 14, 2022

Those arrested included men from 13 states, including Michigan, Texas, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota, Washington, Oregon, Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri. The men have until June 30 to contact the court and set a date for their court appearances. Each man bonded out of the Kootenai County Jail for $300.

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HowAppealing

JULY 3, 2022

“Thomas Lee retires from Utah’s Supreme Court, but still has big plans”: Emily Ashcraft of KSL.com has this report.

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LegalReader

JUNE 13, 2021

After a girl reported being raped by a church member when she was only 14 years old, the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Roy, UT, responded by forcing her to repeatedly listen to an audio recording of the rape.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Similar to regulatory reform initiatives in Utah and Arizona, the Washington Supreme Court has entered an order approving a pilot program that will allow companies and nonprofits that are not owned by lawyers to provide legal services under carefully monitored conditions. The court’s order (Order 25700-B-721), entered Dec.

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EvidenceProf Blog

APRIL 3, 2025

In a trial for two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, should defense counsel be able to ask prospective jurors the following question during jury selection: Do you believe children are capable of lying about significant events?

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