The plaintiff appealed the district court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant on the basis that the plaintiff’s claims required expert medical testimony. The Utah Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that the plaintiff was required to provide…
”The [Inherent Risks of Skiing] Act prohibits pre-injury releases of liability for negligence entirely, regardless of the age of the skier that signed the release or whether the release was signed by a parent on behalf of a child.” Id….
The petitioner sought to challenge a previous justice court lewdness conviction when that conviction led to subsequent lewdness charges being charged as felonies. The petitioner argued that he had been deprived of his right to appeal the original justice court…
The Utah Supreme Court held that while it is error for a district court to accept a guilty plea without holding a preliminary hearing or obtaining an express waiver from the defendant of the right to a preliminary hearing, that…
The defendant in this real-estate dispute made an offer of judgment under Utah Rule of Civil Procedure 68 to resolve the matter by transferring four feet of a disputed five-foot strip of land to the plaintiff. The defendant attempted to…
The Utah Court of Appeals reversed the defendant’s conviction for attempted kidnapping based on trial counsel’s ineffective assistance of counsel in failing to object to the expert testimony of a detective. Although the court identified three ways in which trial…
The Utah Court of Appeals held that strict compliance with the notice provisions of GRAMA is not required to put a requester on notice of the basis for which a government entity denies access to certain records. The plaintiff made…
The parties initially had a joint development agreement to develop three parcels in which they each owned partial interests. The parties could not agree on how to develop the property, so they settled their differences by having one party take…
