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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...

The Utah Supreme Court has ruled against several counties who challenged the state's tax code.  Salt Lake, Duchesne, Uintah, Washington and Weber counties challenged the methodology from the State Tax Commission in determining how much airlines owed to local governments to use their airports.  ...

The chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court, Matthew Durrant, says lawmakers need to do more to help make legal services more accessible to everyone. Durrant addressed lawmakers yesterday in his annual State of the Judiciary on the first day of this year's legislative session...

The Utah Supreme Court has ordered the Attorney General's Office to weigh in on the issue of gender marker changes for birth certificates. Two Utahns sought the changes for their birth certificates last year, but an Ogden judge refused to allow them...

The Utah Supreme Court is upholding several lower court decisions about whether a defendant can demand a jury trial for a traffic citation. The court's recent decision agreed with previous rulings that a jury trial was not guaranteed for any offense with a punishment of fewer than 30 days in jail or that has only a minor fine...

The Utah Supreme Court is rejecting a challenge to the current law governing medical cannabis in the state.  The state's high court unanimously rejected the case brought by the group The People's Right.  The justices said yesterday that state lawmakers and Governor Herbert acted within the law in altering voter-approved Proposition Two last December during a special session called by the governo