Courts

A judge has granted a request by Oregon State and Washington State for a temporary restraining order to prevent departing Pac-12 schools from meeting until it can be determined who has the right to be on the disintegrating conference’s board of directors.

Organizations including the Sierra Club and the Center for Biological Diversity allege that the streams and creeks that should be filling the lake are being diverted for new development and industry.

The ruling is the latest development in the fight over the proposed Uinta Basin Railway, an 88-mile railroad line that would connect oil and gas producers in rural Utah to the broader rail network.

On Monday, Utah gave notice of an appeal just days after a lower U.S. District Court tossed out its suit against the Biden administration.

The dismissal poses a setback for First Amendment and digital privacy advocates, who argue the law unfairly discriminates against certain kinds of speech, violates the First Amendment rights of porn providers and intrudes on the privacy of individuals who want to view sexually explicit materials.

Former President Donald Trump has now been indicted for the third time.

A year after the constitutional right to abortion was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood of Utah is hunkered down in two legal battles to protect abortion rights in the state.

One year after the Supreme Court changed the landscape of abortion, Utah’s laws remain tied up in courts. The president of Pro-Life Utah is confident though that the state will prevail.

In response to a suit challenging the new age verification law and a request for an injunction, the Utah Attorney General’s office says the plaintiffs don’t have grounds to sue.

The judge called the city officials' attempt to stop the show unconstitutional. A statement from the city says it is committed to ensuring public parks remain open to those who want to hold events.

"Our laws that protect national defense information are critical to the safety and security of the United States and they must be enforced," said Smith. "Violations of those laws put our country at risk."

Last week, a federal grand jury issued a superseding indictment that accuses Bateman of making child pornography and provides new details about how he took wives as young as 9 years old as he worked to win followers to start his own small offshoot group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.