In this appeal from a jury verdict involved tort claims arising out of an inheritance, the court held that, absent a request for apportionment of fault by a party, the Liability Reform Act does not preclude the district court from…
By: Heather S. White
All summaries are written by Heather White and are for informational purposes only. Snow Christensen & Martineau represented clients in some of the cases listed below, but the firm was not legal counsel for all of them. Coburn v. Whitaker Construction…
By: Keith A. Call
Contact: Keith A. Call Originally appeared in the Utah State Bar Journal, July/Aug 2019. The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (the Committee) recently took aim at a problem it perceives among prosecutors of misdemeanor crimes. The…
Police officer defendants appealed the district court’s denial of their motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s class-of-one equal protection claim on the basis of qualified immunity. The Tenth Circuit rejected the defendants’ argument that the plaintiff had failed to establish a…
The court held that a panhandling ordinance prohibiting standing or sitting on unpaved medians was not an unconstitutional restriction on free speech because it was a content-neutral restriction, narrowly tailored to the City’s interest in protecting pedestrian safety.
