(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Supreme Court is stepping in to hear arguments in a lawsuit over congressional redistricting. The associate chief justice of the court granted a request by the state legislature on Friday. That will allow the court to step in and review a motion to […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Supreme Court is planning to hear an appeal of a lower-court order that has kept the state’s abortion trigger law from going into effect. The Utah Attorney General’s Office filed an appeal of the order last week. The justices denied a request by […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Supreme Court is considering the appeal of a former Utah State University football player convicted of rape and sexual assault. Lawyers for Torrey Green claimed yesterday that he did not receive a fair trial in 2019 because six different cases were combined into […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Supreme Court now has three women as sitting justices for the very first time. Judge Jill Pohlman’s nomination to the high court was approved unanimously yesterday by the state Senate. Justice Pohlman joins Justice Diana Hagen and Justice Paige Petersen to form a […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A state legislative committee is moving forward with a historic nomination to the Utah Supreme Court. The Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee unanimously approved Judge Jill Pohlman’s nomination to the high court yesterday. The nomination now advances to a full vote in the Senate next month. […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – Governor Spencer Cox nominated a new judge to fill a vacancy on the Utah Supreme Court. Judge Diana Hagen has served on the Utah Court of Appeals for nearly five years. Before then, she worked as the president of the Women Lawyers of Utah. The […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether suspects in criminal cases can be forced to give investigators their cellphone passcodes. Justices heard arguments in the case yesterday after a lower court decision was appealed by the Attorney General’s Office. Prosecutors had argued […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The state judicial system is inviting the public to comment on the seven nominees for a vacancy on the Utah Supreme Court. Justice Constandinos Himonas is stepping down from the court today after six years. The appellate nominating commission released a list of the nominees […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The Utah Supreme Court upheld the ability of law enforcement to obtain a DNA sample under a search warrant by force. The court rejected a challenged from Douglas Evans, who was convicted of a 2014 murder in Kearns. Evans challenged how police obtained his DNA […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman will serve up to 30 years in prison for her involvement with the death of a police officer as a teenager. The Monday sentence comes after the state Supreme Court overturned her original conviction. Meagan Grunwald’s boyfriend fired the fatal shots, but […]
