Utah Supreme Court Decisions 2012
Date: December 28, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 94
Docket Number: 20110755
Justia Opinion Summary: Alpine Vision entered into loan agreements with Prinsburg State Bank's predecessor in interest. Several individuals (Guarantors) executed personal guarantees for the loans. Knighton Optical subsequently purchased Alpine…
Date: December 21, 2012
Citations: 2012 UT 92, 2012 UT 93
Docket Number: 20090894
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant as convicted of aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder. Defendant's conviction was affirmed on appeal, after which he filed a pro se petition seeking relief under the Post-Conviction Remedies act…
Date: December 21, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 91
Docket Number: 20110087
Date: December 14, 2012
Citations: 2012 UT 84, 2012 UT 91
Docket Number: 20110316
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2003, the City of Salt Lake asked voters to approve Proposition No. 5, which proposed the issuance of bonds to finance construction of a regional sports, recreation, and education complex. Voters approved the bonds.…
Date: December 14, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 90
Docket Number: 20120594
Justia Opinion Summary: Utahns for Ethical Government (UEG), a Utah political action committee, advanced a petition for an initiative to be included in the 2010 statewide general election. Ultimately, UEG's efforts to qualify for the 2010…
Date: December 11, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 88
Docket Number: 20100288
Justia Opinion Summary: After Mother was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, she prepared a testamentary appointment of guardianship and conservatorship of Child in favor of Grandparents. After Mother's death and upon a petition by…
Date: December 11, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 89
Docket Number: 20110062
Justia Opinion Summary: In this dispute two companies claimed superior interests in a subdivision property. VCS, Inc. performed work on the subdivision as a general contractor and claimed a valid mechanic's lien on the property. Utah Community…
Date: December 7, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 85
Docket Number: 20101005
Justia Opinion Summary: After a jury trial, Petitioner was convicted of four counts of sodomy on a child and one count of sexual abuse of a child. The convictions were affirmed on direct appeal. Approximately a dozen years later, Petitioner…
Date: December 7, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 86
Docket Number: 20110205
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal arose from a disgorgement order issued by the district court requiring Attorney to disgorge $30,000 in legal fees he received for his representation of the Utah Down Syndrome Association and its founders and…
Date: December 4, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 81
Docket Number: 20110004
Justia Opinion Summary: After the Utah State Bar's Office of Professional Conduct began an attorney discipline proceeding against Donald Gilbert, Gilbert moved to implead the Utah Down Syndrome Foundation pursuant to Utah R. Civ. P. 14(a). The…
Date: December 4, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 83
Docket Number: 20110087
Justia Opinion Summary: This case required the Supreme Court to determine when a well "started" under Utah Code 59-5-102. Although that statute imposes a severance tax on oil or gas produced from a well, section 59-5-102(5)(c) permits an…
Date: December 4, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 80
Docket Number: 20110113
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted Petitioner of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, sodomy on a child, and attempted rape of a child. The court of appeals affirmed. On certiorari, Petitioner argued that the court of appeals erred in…
Date: December 4, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 82
Docket Number: 20110257
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellee claimed an exemption in bankruptcy for seventy-five percent of wages that he earned prior to filing his bankruptcy petition but that were either paid to or still owing to Appellee after the date of the petition.…
Date: November 23, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 78
Docket Number: 20100546
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant, the biological father of Baby Girl T., challenged the district court's determination of his rights as a birth father and its grant of a motion in limine preventing his presentation of evidence. The court…
Date: November 20, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 79
Docket Number: 20110354
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal resulted from an action in eminent domain in which the Utah Department of Transportation sought to condemn an access point easement on property owned by FPA West Point. FPA's codefendant and lessee, Kmart…
Date: November 9, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 77
Docket Number: 20100080
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with two counts of assault. He appeared for a jury trial and was subsequently convicted of a misdemeanor assault. Defendant appealed, claiming that his jury was assembled in a manner inconsistent…
Date: November 6, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 75
Docket Number: 20100940
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose out of collective bargaining negotiations between the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and Local 382 of the Amalgamated Transit Union (Union). Those negotiations came to a standstill in 2009 when the parties…
Date: November 6, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 76
Docket Number: 20110033
Justia Opinion Summary: Sunnyside Coal Company (Sunnyside), the Employers' Reinsurance Fund (ERF), and the Workers' Compensation Fund (WCF) (collectively, Petitioners) challenged the Labor Commission's award of permanent total disability…
Date: November 2, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 74
Docket Number: 20110050
Justia Opinion Summary: Pioneer Builders financed the purchase of an RV park (Property). At that time, the Property was subject to several existing recorded and unrecorded leases. When Pioneer attempted to foreclose on the property, some of the…
Date: October 23, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 73
Docket Number: 20100969
Justia Opinion Summary: The Board of Oil, Gas and Mining (Board) affirmed the approval by the Division of Oil, Gas and Mining (Division) of Alton Coal Development's (ACD) mining permit, which allowed ACD to conduct surface coal mining…
Date: October 23, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 72
Docket Number: 20110102
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal concerned a challenge by a group of citizens (Citizens) to an ordinance passed by the Ground County Council (Council) approving amendments concerning a Planned Unit Development district. The district court…
Date: October 12, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 71
Docket Number: 20100435
Justia Opinion Summary: Here the Supreme Court answered a question of Utah law certified to it by the U.S. district court. The question was, "Is a signed agreement to donate preserved sperm to the donor's wife in the event of his death…
Date: October 5, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 68
Docket Number: 20090273
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant entered into a plea agreement in 2005 in which the State promised to not oppose a motion to reduce his convictions. Defendant later filed a motion to reduce his convictions after successfully completing his…
Date: October 5, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 69
Docket Number: 20090432
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1985, Appellant was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. In 2006, Appellant filed a successive postconviction petition for relief. In 2009, the district court dismissed Appellant's petition,…
Date: October 5, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 70
Docket Number: 20110011
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff sued Defendants for injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Defendants mailed Plaintiff a letter asking for her authorization to permit the release of her medical and employment records for the last…
Date: October 2, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 66
Docket Number: 20120158
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case the Supreme Court was asked to answer a certified question about whether the Court's discretionary review of a petition for extraordinary writ and subsequent dismissal on laches grounds is a decision on the…
Date: September 28, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 62
Docket Number: 20100202
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, and dealing in material harmful to a minor, a second-degree felony. Defendant appealed his convictions to the court of appeals,…
Date: September 28, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 65
Docket Number: 20100549
Justia Opinion Summary: The State filed a petition that charge D.B. as a principal with theft and criminal trespass for entering a construction site and removing a pair of bolt cutters. The juvenile court adjudicated D.B. a delinquent as an…
Date: September 28, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 63
Docket Number: 20100919
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant brought suit against his former employer, EnvironMax, and its directors to recover the value of shares he received to offset wages owed to him by the company - shares he claimed were diluted by corporate…
Date: September 28, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 64
Docket Number: 20110862
Justia Opinion Summary: The Judicial Conduct Commission recommended a reprimand against the Honorable Keith L. Stoney due to the issuance of an excessive warrant. Judge Stoney argued before the Supreme Court that the excessive amount of the…
Date: September 25, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 60
Docket Number: 20100286
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of sexual abuse of a child. At trial, the court admitted evidence of two prior uncharged sexual assaults by Defendant. On appeal, Defendant challenged the admissibility of that evidence under Utah…
Date: September 25, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 61
Docket Number: 20100780
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff underwent several medical procedures performed by Defendants, two medical doctors. Two years and three months after the treatment ended, Plaintiff filed a medical malpractice claim against Defendants. Upon a…
Date: September 18, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 59
Docket Number: 20110174
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia after a search of his motel room. The district court declined to bind Defendant over for trial at a preliminary hearing, concluding that…
Date: September 14, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 58
Docket Number: 20110243
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005, Allen Grazer obtained a judgment against Gordon Jones and Richard Barney for breach of contract. To satisfy the judgment, property held by Jones and Barney was sold at a sheriff's sale and purchased by Grazer's…
Date: September 11, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 57
Docket Number: 20100915
Justia Opinion Summary: After Michael G. Kampros's death, Mark Green and Sophie Gibson became trustees of the Michael G. Kampros Family Trust. Willow Rapela, Kampros's daughter and the successor trustee, requested removal of Green and Gibson…
Date: September 7, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 55
Docket Number: 20100425
Justia Opinion Summary: Shawn Adel, a former employee of Westgate Resorts, a timeshare company, formed Consumer Protection Group (CPG) to right perceived wrongs stemming from Westgate's offer of certificates to consumers that were virtually…
Date: September 7, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 56
Docket Number: 20101017
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal was rooted in a dispute over an arbitration award. Each party had selected an arbitrator, and a third neutral arbitrator was selected by the two party-appointed arbitrators. Appellee argued that the award…
Date: August 31, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 54
Docket Number: 20100629
Justia Opinion Summary: After an automobile accident caused severe injury to Plaintiffs, Plaintiffs sued the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT), alleging that it negligently failed to install median barriers at the scene of the accident.…
Date: August 28, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 52
Docket Number: 20100951
Justia Opinion Summary: Chad Jones sued his insurance company, Farmers Insurance Exchange, for breach of contract, bad faith breach of contract, and intentional infliction of emotional distress after Farmers denied his claim. Farmers defended…
Date: August 24, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 51
Docket Number: 20120241
Justia Opinion Summary: The procedural background of the extensive litigation underlying this case was discussed in Madsen IV. Following the Supreme Court's decision in that case, Appellant Nancy Madsen filed a new complaint alleging grounds…
Date: August 10, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 49
Docket Number: 20090847
Justia Opinion Summary: Comcast of Utah II, Inc. (Comcast) appealed from the district court's grant of partial summary judgment in favor of Commercial Real Estate Investment, LC (CRE). The district court awarded CRE approximately $1.7 million…
Date: August 10, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 50
Docket Number: 20100024
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was convicted of aggravated assault and criminal mischief. Defendant appealed his convictions and submitted a hybrid Anders/merits brief. Upon review of Defendant's pro se filings and his counsel's Anders…
Date: August 10, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 48
Docket Number: 20100632
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court granted the State's petition for interlocutory review to address whether a court may grant a criminal defendant's request to waive a jury trial over the prosecution's objection. The district court…
Date: August 3, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 47
Docket Number: 20120300
Justia Opinion Summary: This was an appeal from the probate court's order requiring the State to make an interim payment of the Special Fiduciary's fees incurred in administering the United Effort Plan Trust. The State argued that the probate…
Date: July 27, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 46
Docket Number: 20080508
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant was charged with aggravated murder and aggravated burglary. After being tried and convicted on both charges, he was sentenced to death. On appeal, Defendant raised numerous arguments concerning his convictions,…
Date: July 27, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 45
Docket Number: 20100661
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs purchased a house from Defendant, who built the house. Plaintiffs later discovered mold in some of the windows and walls and sued Defendant. The jury found in favor of Plaintiffs on their negligence claim but…
Date: July 20, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 43
Docket Number: 20090354
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the Wilsons on behalf of their son, Jared. The Wilsons alleged that employees of IHC Hospitals breached their duty of care during Ms. Wilson's labor and…
Date: July 20, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 44
Docket Number: 20110425
Justia Opinion Summary: Stephen Maxfield challenged the results of the 2010 gubernatorial election under Utah's election-contest statute, asking the district court to declare him and his running mate the lieutenant governor and governor of…
Date: July 6, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 41
Docket Number: 20100162
Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted Defendant of aggravated robbery. The jury found that Defendant was subject to a one-year enhancement of his sentence because a dangerous weapon was used in the course of the robbery. The court of appeals…
Date: July 6, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 42
Docket Number: 20100595
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs brought suit against a law firm and its attorneys for their role in executing civil discovery orders. The orders authorized entry into Plaintiffs' home to seize electronic files from Plaintiffs' computer and…
Date: July 3, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 40
Docket Number: 20090932
Justia Opinion Summary: Roger Hooban sued Unicity International for breach of a distribution agreement. The district court entered summary judgment for Unicity, holding that Hooban was not a party to the agreement and lacked standing to sue for…
Date: June 29, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 38
Docket Number: 20100120
Justia Opinion Summary: This dispute centered around two roads owned by the Maceys, their company Family Link, and the remaining defendants (Defendants). Petitioner Nadine Gillmor previously brought suit against the Maceys seeking to interpret…
Date: June 29, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 39
Docket Number: 20100449
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner Jones & Trevor Marketing appealed the dismissal of its suit against the owners of Financial Development Services, Jonathan Lowry and Nathan Kinsella, alleging various contract and tort claims based on an alter…
Date: June 26, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 37
Docket Number: 20100392
Justia Opinion Summary: Dentist purchased dental practice management software from Company to aid his patient data requirement. The contract between Dentist and Company limited Dentist's remedies for damages in tort caused by defects in the…
Date: June 19, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 36
Docket Number: 20100257
Justia Opinion Summary: The State appealed the dismissal of its complaint against seventeen pharmaceutical companies, which the State alleged defrauded Utah's Medicaid program by reporting inflated drug prices. In its complaint, the State…
Date: June 15, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 35
Docket Number: 20090740
Justia Opinion Summary: Robert Manzanares, a Colorado resident, challenged the district court's order terminating his parental rights in his biological daughter, "Baby B." The district court held that Manzanares's conset to the adoption of Baby…
Date: June 8, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 34
Docket Number: 20090655
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Eric Butt was convicted of distributing harmful materials to a minor when he mailed rudimentary nude drawings of himself to his five-year-old daughter. On appeal, Butt argued that the evidence was insufficient…
Date: June 8, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 33
Docket Number: 20100277
Justia Opinion Summary: Eighteen-month-old Wonzie Barrientos's mother, Jessica Nelson, was killed in a car accident, the result of a high-speed chase in which an Ogden City police officer pursued a speeding car that ultimately crashed into…
Date: June 1, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 32
Docket Number: 20090255
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner David Gregg was convicted of rape, a first-degree felony. The trial court sentenced Gregg to an indeterminate term of five years to life. The court of appeals affirmed the conviction. Gregg subsequently filed…
Date: May 25, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 31
Docket Number: 20100648
Justia Opinion Summary: This case arose from a lawsuit in federal district court over the death of fifteen-year-old Tucker Thayer. In that suit, Tucker's parents alleged that Washington County School District officials were negligent when they…
Date: May 15, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 30
Docket Number: 20110275
Justia Opinion Summary: In July 2006, Appellee Staker & Parson Companies (Staker) worked as a contractor for the Utah Department of Transportation on an interstate construction project. Appellant Kent Turner sustained serious injuries in a car…
Date: May 4, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 29
Docket Number: 20090559
Justia Opinion Summary: Wolfgango Ruiz pled guilty to one count of attempted sexual abuse of a child, a third degree felony. Prior to his sentencing, Ruiz made a request to withdraw his plea on the ground that his original defense counsel had…
Date: May 4, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 27
Docket Number: 20090829
Justia Opinion Summary: James Alexander pled guilty to burglary with intent to commit sexual battery. Prior to sentencing, Alexander filed a timely motion to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing (1) the district court failed to apprise him of the…
Date: May 4, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 28
Docket Number: 20090882
Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal encompassed two consolidated cases. In the first case, Charles Moa entered a no contest plea to a third degree felony but later filed motions to withdraw that plea. Moa first stipulated that his plea was…
Date: May 4, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 25
Docket Number: 20090998
Justia Opinion Summary: Troy Kell was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Kell subsequently filed a petition for postconviction relief, alleging ineffective assistance of trial counsel, which the district court dismissed. The Supreme…
Date: May 4, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 17
Docket Number: 20100276
Justia Opinion Summary: A group of residential tenants (collectively, Tenants) alleged claims of negligence against Canyon Cover Properties, LLC and Apartment Management Consultants, LLC (collectively, AMC). AMC argued that it was relieved from…
Date: May 4, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 26
Docket Number: 20100923
Justia Opinion Summary: This protracted litigation arose out of a real-property exaction imposed on B.A.M. Development, LLC, as a condition of a construction permit for a fifteen-acre residential housing development. Twice the Supreme Court…
Date: April 20, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 24
Docket Number: 20100952
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff's son, Hayden, was involved in a near-drowning accident in which he suffered severe permanent injuries. Plaintiff subsequently sought coverage for the cost of his treatment from Wasatch Crest Mutual Insurance,…
Date: April 13, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 23
Docket Number: 20100082
Justia Opinion Summary: Upon adjudication of parental neglect, the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) took custody of L.O., a child and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, and placed L.O. with a foster family. After L.O.'s…
Date: April 3, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 22
Docket Number: 20100847
Justia Opinion Summary: After sustaining injuries in an auto accident, Tavis McArthur filed this suit in federal district court to recover underinsured motorist (UIM) benefits under his State Farm automobile insurance policy. The district court…
Date: March 27, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 19
Docket Number: 20090932
Justia Opinion Summary: Roger Hooban sued Unicity International for breach of a distribution agreement. The district court entered summary judgment for Unicity, holding that Hooban was not a party to the agreement and lacked standing to sue for…
Date: March 27, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 20
Docket Number: 201003207
Justia Opinion Summary: When Client allegedly failed to pay Firm as agreed under their contract, Firm sued Client for breach. Client counterclaimed for breach of contract and negligence. Client also filed a third-party complaint against Firm's…
Date: March 23, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 18
Docket Number: 20100329
Justia Opinion Summary: One of Summit Water Distribution Company's (SWDC) minority shareholders, Bear Hollow Restoration, filed a complaint requesting a review and investigation of SWDC's exemption from public regulation under the now-repealed…
Date: March 20, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 15
Docket Number: 20090839
Justia Opinion Summary: Lemuel Prion pled guilty and mentally ill to three felony charges pursuant to Utah Code Ann. 77-16-104(3). Under the provisions of the statute, Prion was first sentenced to three terms of varying length, all to be served…
Date: March 20, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 16
Docket Number: 20100339
Justia Opinion Summary: The Point of the Mountain Aqueduct is a sixty-inch diameter pipeline that runs along the Draper Canal and transports culinary water to Salt Lake City and other cities in the Salt Lake Valley. Plaintiffs in this case were…
Date: March 13, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 14
Docket Number: 20090980
Justia Opinion Summary: Steve Richards sued his former domestic partner, Diana Brown, seeking to have the relationship declared to be an unsolemnized marriage. The trial court granted partial summary judgment in favor of Brown, holding that…
Date: March 6, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 13
Docket Number: 20100125
Justia Opinion Summary: Ira B. Warne executed a partial revocation of and amendment to the Ira B. Warne family protection trust, the purpose of which was to terminate the interest of one of Ira's sons, Thomas Warne, who had been designated as a…
Date: March 6, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 12
Docket Number: 20100983
Justia Opinion Summary: Dillon Whitney's mother filed a wrongful death suit against the State after Dillon died while in state custody. The State filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that it was exempt from suit under the incarceration exception…
Date: February 28, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 10
Docket Number: 20100054
Justia Opinion Summary: Miriam Salazar purchased an insurance policy from United Automobile Insurance Company and El Sol Insurance Agency (collectively, United), rejecting underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage by signing United's waiver. After…
Date: February 28, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 11
Docket Number: 20110207
Justia Opinion Summary: Patient received medical treatment from Nurse at Medical Clinic. Nurse prescribed Patient at least six medications. With all of these drugs in his system, Patient shot and killed his wife. Patient subsequently pled…
Date: February 3, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 9
Docket Number: 20090740
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this case was a support order that required Petitioner Steven Hansen to pay child support to his ex-wife. Petitioner subsequently sought to redirect his support payments to a homeless shelter where the child…
Date: January 27, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 8
Docket Number: 20090740
Justia Opinion Summary: Appellant Robert Manzanares and Carie Terry conceived a child in Colorado. Appellant filed a paternity action in Colorado, seeking to enjoin any adoption proceeding. In Utah, a couple signed a petition for the adoption…
Date: January 27, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 7
Docket Number: 20090990
Justia Opinion Summary: While driving, Jed Price struck another vehicle, killing a passenger in that vehicle. After he consented to accompany an officer to a police station, a magistrate issued a warrant to seize Price's blood for testing to…
Date: January 24, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 3
Docket Number: 20090657
Date: January 24, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 5
Docket Number: 20090771
Justia Opinion Summary: Von Lester Taylor pled guilty to two capital homicide charges and was sentenced to death. A Utah R. App. P. 23B hearing was later held before the district court, after which the court rejected all of Taylor's claims of…
Date: January 24, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 6
Docket Number: 20090938
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs William and Donna Judson secured a default judgment against Wheeler RV Las Vegas on a complaint asserting breach of contract and misrepresentation claims arising out of the Judsons' purchase of a recreational…
Date: January 20, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 4
Docket Number: 20100029
Justia Opinion Summary: At issue in this appeal was the Privilege Tax Statute, which provides that an entity may be taxed on the privilege of beneficially using or possessing property in connection with a for-profit business when the owner of…
Date: January 13, 2012
Citations: 2012 UT 3, 2012 UT 3 -->
Docket Number: 20090657
Justia Opinion Summary: The parents of a child who suffered an injury during an adult softball game sued the United States Specialty Association (USSSA) and several other defendants. At the time of the accident, USSSA was insured by United…
Date: January 10, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 2
Docket Number: 20110482
Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioners in this case were Lehi City voters who sought to place on the municipal ballot initiatives regulating salaries and residency requirements for certain city employees. The City refused to accept the…
Date: January 6, 2012
Citation: 2012 UT 1
Docket Number: 20090340
Justia Opinion Summary: Ohio Casualty insured Cloud Nine from 2001 to 2002. Unigard Insurance insured Cloud Nine from 2002 to 2005. Edizone, LC sued Cloud Nine in federal district court, alleging injuries that began during the last three months…
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