In this criminal appeal, the Utah Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s denial of the defendant’s motion to suppress based upon the stop being impermissibly prolonged without reasonable suspicion. The defendant had argued that, while the initial stop may have…
Reversing the defendant’s conviction, the Supreme Court held that the witness retaliation statute requires a showing that the defendant intended for the threat or harmful action to reach the targeted witness, but does not require proof that the threat actually…
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In an appeal involving the SEC’s civil enforcement action against an alleged Ponzi scheme based in Utah, the Tenth Circuit held that Congress intended the antifraud provisions of the federal Securities Acts to apply extraterritorially according to the judicially-created conduct…
After the district court granted in part and denied in part the defendants’ motion to dismiss the due process claims asserted against them under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, holding one defendant was entitled to qualified immunity on all claims, while one…
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In this appeal from the denial of a petition for post-conviction relief, the Utah Supreme Court confirmed that Utah R. Civ. P. 15(c) applies to proposed amendments to petitions under the Post-Conviction Remedies Act filed after the statute of limitations…
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The appellant sought to overturn the jury’s award of non-economic damages to the plaintiff on the ground that she failed to show a “permanent disability or permanent impairment based upon objective findings,” as required by Utah Code § 31A-22-309(1)(a)(iii). The court…
In this criminal appeal, the Utah Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s denial of the defendant’s request for a cautionary jury instruction regarding the limitations of eyewitness identification under State v. Long, 721 P.2d 483 (Utah 1986). The court…
