In this bankruptcy case, the creditor maintained that its student loans were exempted from discharge, absent a showing of undue hardship. The Tenth Circuit disagreed and, as a matter of first impression, held that the statutory exception for an “educational…
More than a decade after the divorce decree was entered, the wife filed this separate action seeking relief from the decree on the basis the husband had failed to disclose certain assets during the divorce proceeding. In affirming the district…
Ones To Watch recognition for Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar Congratulations to Nate J. Mitchell who received a 2021 Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch recognition for Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White-Collar. Nate received his J.D. from the University of…
Congratulations to Robert W. Thompson named the Best Lawyers® 2021 Insurance “Lawyer of the Year” in Salt Lake City. Robert defends insureds in slip-and-fall, product liability, automobile, trucking, construction injury, construction defect, and other litigation matters. He also defends insurance…
Snow Christensen & Martineau is pleased to announce that eighteen of the firm’s lawyers have been named, in multiple categories, to the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the…
The underlying case involved a car wreck after which the plaintiff sued the driver of his vehicle and the car that hit him. The other driver settled, and the district court granted summary judgment for the driver because the plaintiff…
This consolidated appeal dealt with the standard for compelling a victim to testify at a preliminary hearing. The trial court in Nielsen granted a motion to quash the defendant’s subpoena compelling the victim to testify, while the trial court in…
The coronavirus pandemic has mortality on the minds of many young people who are taking action now writing wills and making critical estate planning decisions about who will be in charge of their medical care and finances if they’re ill and incapacitated.
The supreme court held that the district court erred in permitting the expert to offer a causative opinion never disclosed based on a blanket assertion that the opposing party elected a deposition, as opposed to a report. In rejecting the…
Counsel received $348,404.41 for representing debtors in a bankruptcy, but then failed to disclose his fee arrangement as required by statute and rule. Reversing the bankruptcy court’s $25,000 sanction, the Tenth Circuit held that the presumptive sanction for failure to…
