Jul 7, 2020
Reversing the district court’s denial of a motion to suppress, the Tenth Circuit held that the defendant’s statements during interrogation were involuntary and inadmissible, where the law enforcement agent made misrepresentations about potential penalties, stated that the length of the…
Jul 6, 2020
This appeal arose from the district court’s denial of post-trial motions in an automobile accident case where the jury awarded $300,000 in general damages to the plaintiff, but no special damages. The defendant argued that the general damage award was…
Jun 25, 2020
In this custody case, the court of appeals held that the district court abused its discretion in denying a motion under Rule 60(b)(1) to set aside a default order that had been entered because the mother failed to appear within…
Jun 23, 2020
The court affirmed the court of appeals’ ruling that a criminal defendant was not entitled to a limited review of the victim’s privileged mental health therapy records, because he failed to establish that the victim had a condition that was…
Jun 22, 2020
In this termination of parental rights case, the supreme court held that the court of appeals properly disavowed prior case law that suggested that termination almost automatically followed a determination that the statutory grounds had been met. The court also…
Jun 22, 2020
In this civil rights appeal, the Tenth Circuit applied Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders, 566 U.S. 318 (2012), to determine whether the challenged jail body-cavity strip-search policy was unconstitutional. It held that Florence does not sanction body-cavity strip-searching all…
Jun 15, 2020
In the middle of his trial on kidnapping and weapons charges, the defendant elected to waive his right to counsel. Appealing his subsequent conviction, the defendant argued that the waiver was invalid because it was not made knowingly and intelligently….
Jun 11, 2020
Utah Code § 78B-2308(7) provides that, even if claims for sexual abuse of minors were “time barred as of July 1, 2016,” the claims were nonetheless revived if they were “brought within 35 years of the victim’s 18th birthday, or within…
Jun 11, 2020
In this condemnation proceeding, the supreme court held that there is no categorical bar precluding admission of evidence of a post-valuation-date sale or development of property. The admissibility of such evidence depends on the circumstances of the case and is…
Jun 10, 2020
The court held the plaintiff’s post-trial motions were timely because the district court’s order granting a motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint with prejudice was not a separate Rule 58(a) judgment, and therefore did not trigger the 28-day deadline for plaintiff…
