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  1. Legal Research

    The best resource for help with legal research is a law library. ... State and federal courts have separate rules, and there are different kinds of rules for different types of cases. Utah State Law Library | 450 S. State Street | 801-238-7990 | ...

  2. Utah Legal Research

    Utah's law libraries and the Utah History Research Center have historical collections of Utah codes back to territorial times. Utah Session Laws (1851-current) - a Utah public library card is required to access this resource. The Utah Code is cited by title, chapter and section: UT Code § 76-5-302.

  3. Utah Legal Research & Court Cases: Find UT Opinions at FindLaw

    Browse Utah Courts. Court of Appeals of Utah. Supreme Court of Utah. United States Bankruptcy Court D Utah. United States District Court D Utah. United States District Court D Utah Central Division. FindLaw provides resources for Utah legal research including searchable database of the UT Cases : UT Court Opinions - UT Court Decisions.

  4. Decisis is the New Free Legal Research Tool for Active Utah State Bar

    Thursday, June 13, 2024. The Utah State Bar offers licensees a free legal research tool because we understand the critical importance of having a fast and reliable legal research tool at your fingertips. Available now for your use, we are moving away from Fastcase to Decisis, a new service now available to all licensees that is worth $1,740 per ...

  5. Records

    Media. Home (English) Records. Records. Appellate Court Opinions and Cases. Access your case online with MyCase. Find a Case (Xchange) Find my Court (Directory) Public Notices.

  6. Utah Supreme Court Decisions :: Utah Case Law

    Citation: 2021 UT 68. Docket Number: 20190774. Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court concluding that compliance with Utah Code 10-2-421 was the only precondition to three cities' taking over service to electric customers in annexed areas of…. Kennecott Utah Copper, LLC v.

  7. Utah Case Law :: Utah Law :: US Law :: Justia

    The lowest level of the Utah state court system consists of the Utah District Courts, the Utah Justice Courts, and the Utah Juvenile Courts. The District Courts are trial courts with general jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases, as well as family law and probate matters. These courts also review appeals of decisions by Justice Courts.

  8. ULibraries Research Guides: Utah Legal Resources: Utah Cases

    All University of Utah libraries course and research guides, in one place. J. Willard Marriott Library Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library James E. Faust Library University of Utah

  9. Utah Case Law Search

    Change the way you conduct Utah case law research and strengthen your position with a deeper understanding of Utah state laws with LexisNexis. Read on. ... Utah Case Law Library and Database. The LexisNexis Utah Administrative Code Annotated includes rule histories, case notes and other proprietary annotations unavailable from Westlaw or the ...

  10. ULibraries Research Guides: Utah Legal Resources: Home

    Welcome to the Utah online legal resources links guide maintained by the James E. Faust Law Library at the University of Utah. Here you will find links to online legal research resources for Utah law and Utah government. Additional online legal research resources may be found on our other links guides:

  11. Appellate Court Opinions

    82024 72024. Juvenile Case Decisions. View Current Juvenile Case Decisions. Unpublished Decisions (1997 - 2010) More information about Unpublished Decisions. Appellate Opinion Release Schedule. Appellate Docket Search. Appellate Court Briefs. Clerkships with the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

  12. State v. Ogden :: 2023 :: Utah Supreme Court Decisions :: Utah Case Law

    The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the district court denying Defendant's motion filed under Utah R. Civ. P. 60(b)(6), which allows a court to grant relief from a judgment under certain circumstances, holding that Defendant's challenge to his conviction could have been brought in a petition for post-conviction relief.

  13. Utah State Law Resources

    The state legislature drafts and passes laws, the judiciary interprets laws, and the executive branch (in the form of regulatory agencies) enforces laws. Although each branch has different legal responsibilities they each contribute to the body of Utah law. Legislature - statutes. Judiciary - case law. Executive - rules & regulations

  14. PDF COMMUNITY LEGAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES GENERAL

    Free resources to research Utah laws, court rules, and cases, as well as assistance with navigating court forms and rules. Utah State Courts' Self-Help Center . Call: (888) 683-0009 : Text: (801) 742-1898 . [email protected]. Free legal help regarding the law and court processes, how to find and complete forms for a court

  15. Policies

    Judicial opinions (case decisions) based on briefs in this Digital Commons collection may often be found at the Utah Courts website or by using the Google Scholar case law search. Basic legal research information is available through the BYU Law Library's libguides, as well as the BYU and UofU Law Libraries' onsite print and electronic ...

  16. Here's what's next: Utah Law faculty discuss innovative legal research

    Cultural awareness and identity performance in the legal profession: Clinical Professor Leslie Culver. Clinical Professor Leslie Culver teaches law students to develop their legal writing, research, and oral advocacy skills through an elevated lens of identity formation. Her research agenda is driven by her Christian faith in equality and doctrinally lies at the intersection of race and ...

  17. Xchange: Public Case Search

    Finding legal help and resources. Find help. LEGAL HELP ... Xchange is a repository of district court and justice court case information. District courts are general jurisdiction courts. Cases handled in district courts include domestic, civil and criminal cases. ... Utah Code of Judicial Administration 4-202.02 was changed effective April 1 ...

  18. Utah Court Case Lookup

    In Utah, a court case is any dispute between two opposing parties brought to a law court for a judge to decide guilt or liability. It could be a Civil case involving conflicts between individuals, businesses, or organizations where one party is called the "plaintiff" and the other "defendant". The plaintiff is the party who feels wronged by the ...

  19. Utah Supreme Court Decisions :: Utah Case Law

    Planned Parenthood Association v. State Date: August 1, 2024 Citation: 2024 UT 28 Docket Number: 20220696 . Justia Opinion Summary: **Summary:** The case involves the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (PPAU) challenging Senate Bill 174 (SB 174), a law enacted by the Utah Legislature that prohibits abortion at any stage of pregnancy except in…

  20. Civil Rights Cases, Dockets and Filings in Utah

    Filed: July 25, 2024 as 2:2024cv00519. Defendant: Salt Lake City Corporation, Travis Christensen, Craig Weinheimer and others. Plaintiff: Richard Taylor and Samuel Taylor. Cause Of Action: 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Civil Rights Act. Court: Tenth Circuit › Utah › US District Court for the District of Utah.

  21. Professor Teneille Brown's genetic genealogy research cited in

    Professor Teneille Brown, an expert in biosciences and medical ethics, wrote a paper in 2020, "Why We Fear Genetic Informants: Using Genetic Genealogy to Catch Serial Killers," that a judge cited extensively in a new order in the Bryan Kohberger murder case. Kohberger is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022. Judge John Judge is ordering an "in-camera ...

  22. Abortion care remains available in Utah after state Supreme Court ...

    The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday that abortion will remain legal up to 18 weeks in Utah while the state awaits a lower court's ruling on Planned Parenthood Association of Utah's lawsuit ...

  23. Utah Legal Forms

    Utah Legal Forms. Utah Court Forms with Instructions. A collection of forms and instructions on how to use them maintained by the Utah State Courts. These forms cover a wide variety of topics, including forms for adoption, divorce and small claims cases. Utah Legal Forms (Gale)

  24. Utah Supreme Court Upholds a Block on a Strict Abortion Ban

    Utah is one of a handful of states where polls show that less than a majority of voters — 45 percent in a recent survey — believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. The other ...

  25. Utah State Law Library

    The State Law Library is open to the public. Our hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except federal and state holidays. Patrons can use the library's computers to access XChange, OCAP and forms on the court's website, as well as our print collection (briefs, superseded Utah code, and other materials), and use the library's copier and scanner.

  26. Utah's top court refuses to revive abortion ban for now

    Utah's ban was passed in 2020 as a so-called "trigger law," which would take effect if the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated the national right to abortion it had recognized since its 1973 Roe v. Wade ...

  27. Why Utah Supreme Court decision on abortion law left this

    The Utah Supreme Court handed down a decision in an ongoing case on the state's law banning elective abortions — it allowed an injunction blocking the law to continue. To get perspective on what this ruling means, the Deseret News spoke with constitutional scholar Bill Duncan, a fellow at the Sutherland Institute who has a long history of ...

  28. Miller v. Miller :: 2020 :: Utah Court of Appeals

    2020 UT App 171 THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS RYAN MILLER, Appellant, v. BRENDA MILLER, Appellee. Opinion No. 20190748-CA Filed December 24, 2020 Second District Court, Farmington Department The Honorable Michael Edwards No. 134701192 Jonathan Hibshman, Marco Brown, and Rodney R. Parker, Attorneys for Appellant Dustin D. Gibb, Attorney for Appellee JUDGE KATE APPLEBY authored this Opinion, in ...

  29. Salo v. Tyler :: 2018 :: Utah Supreme Court Decisions :: Utah Case Law

    In the instant case, Defendants were entitled to summary judgment under the Utah Governmental Immunity Act, Utah Code 63G-7-101 through 63G-7-904, where Defendants acted within the scope of their employment and there was no evidence that their actions were willful.

  30. Utah Supreme Court keeps abortion trigger law on hold during ...

    Thousands gathered at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022.