From 1998 to 2009, Alavina Florreich was the nanny for
Alex and his siblings. Florreich is a Tongan immigrant, and Alex
and his siblings were the homeschooled children of a Jewish
rabbi.
¶3 When Alex was eight years old, Florreich was watching a
movie with Alex and his younger siblings one day when Alex
began giving her a shoulder massage. While doing so, Alex
s... More...    $0 (01-24-2024 - UT)

During the weekend of June 26 to 27, 2015, five-year-old
B.B. slept over at the home of Forbush, who is his uncle. About
three weeks later, B.B. was showering with his father (Father), as
was apparently their occasional practice, when B.B. asked why his
uncircumcised penis looked different from Father’s circumcised
penis. Father replied that B.B. didn’t need to worry b... More...    $0 (01-24-2024 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a bad faith breach of an insurance contract.

Bad faith breach of an insurance contract occurs when an insurance company unreasonably denies, delays, or underpays a valid claim. This legal concept seeks to protect policyholders from unfair and dishonest practices by insurance companies.

K... More...    $0 (12-08-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury lawyer sued Defendants on negligence and breach of fiduciary theories claiming that Navarro-a medical assistant at Planned Parenthood-had publicized Aguila's private health information and that Planned Parenthood was vicariously liable for Navarro's actions. Aguila also made direct claims against Planned Parenthood for negligent hiring, training, and supervisio... More...    $0 (05-11-2023 - Ut)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with multiple counts of extortion and cyberstalking a Utah victim and her family.

Jordy Julian Alvarez, 28, a Texas resident, repeatedly harassed and intimidated the female victim to provide an explicit video or he would release to the public compromising photos and videos of the victim already in his possession. ... More...    $0 (05-09-2023 - UT)

This appeal concerns an assigned claim on a liability-insurance policy. Belsen
Getty, LLC, a registered investment adviser owned by Terry Deru, obtained a claimsmade
financial-services-liability policy (the Policy) from XL Specialty Insurance
Company covering Belsen Getty and its advisers for the period from October 9, 2010, to
October 9, 2011. Under the policy, XL had no duty to d... More...    $0 (09-11-2018 - UT)

Silvan Warnick brings this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 malicious prosecution case
and a number of state law tort claims against several Salt Lake County
prosecutors and investigators. He claims he was falsely accused of tampering
with evidence that led to the filing of criminal charges against him that were later
dismissed.
The district court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss, and... More...    $0 (07-10-2018 - UT)

The State tried Mr. Martin on four counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, for sexually abusing his sisters-in-law A.L. and N.L. while occupying “a position of special trust in relation to” them. UTAH CODE § 76-5-404.1(4)(h). ¶ 7 At trial, A.L. testified that Mr. Martin had touched her vagina on four different occasions while he was supervising her; N.L. testified tha... More...    $0 (11-26-2017 - UT)

¶1 Wesley Robinson Shuman and Catherine Jane Shuman obtained a bifurcated decree of divorce in 2011. Several years later, in 2015, all outstanding issues related to their divorce were submitted to the trial court for resolution. Following a two-day trial, the court granted primary physical and sole legal custody
1. After hearing the arguments in this case, Judge J. Frederic Voros Jr. retired a... More...    $0 (10-19-2017 - UT)

¶1 Natalie Heslop (Heslop) rolled her truck down an embankment. She told the responding police officer, her family, and medical personnel that the accident had been a suicide attempt. Ten days after the crash, she told an insurance adjuster that her “mind wasn’t right,” she had taken “too many pills” the day before the crash, and that the crash was “pretty much a suicide attempt.” Her insurance po... More...    $0 (01-24-2017 - UT)

This case arises from the death of Ute Tribe member Todd R. Murray on
April 1, 2007, following a police pursuit. Murray’s parents Debra Jones and
Arden Post, on behalf of themselves and Murray’s estate, brought a 13-count
complaint in the district court alleging various constitutional violations under 42
U.S.C. § 1983, conspiracy to violate civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1985, and... More...    $0 (12-29-2015 - UT)

On appeal from a motion to dismiss, we must accept the factual allegations in the complaint as true1 and view all reasonable inferences from them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.2 We outline the pertinent facts consistent with this standard. ¶4 Between 2009 and 2012, Mr. Pang worked as a compliance officer for Internal Document Services (IDS) and Progressive Finance. Resource Managem... More...    $0 (09-20-2015 - UT)

Within a month after Raymond Zisumbo complained to his supervisor at Ogden
Regional Medical Center (ORMC) about alleged race discrimination in the workplace,
2
ORMC investigated Zisumbo for submitting apparently fraudulent letters to his
supervisor months earlier. After confirming that at least one of the letters was falsified,
ORMC terminated Zisumbo’s employment. Zisumbo sued... More...    $0 (09-04-2015 - UT)

On appeal from a motion to dismiss, we must accept the factual allegations in the complaint as true1 and view all reasonable inferences from them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.2 We outline the pertinent facts consistent with this standard. ¶4 Between 2009 and 2012, Mr. Pang worked as a compliance officer for Internal Document Services (IDS) and Progressive Finance. Resource Managem... More...    $0 (08-12-2015 - UT)

Dr. Taylor began treating Mr. Robinson in 2003 for chronic back pain and degenerative disc disease. Over the next three years, Dr. Taylor prescribed various pain medications to treat Mr. Robinson’s pain, including methadone, Lortab, and Demerol. Mr.
1 Dr. Taylor also challenges the trial court’s decision allowing the jury to consider punitive damages and its refusal to apply the health car... More...    $0 (08-12-2015 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - The State of Utah charged John Martin Carrell, age 62, with 33 counts of first-degree felony aggravated sexual abuse of child for molesting two minor girls. Carrell drove a school bus for the Canyon School District. The State alleged that Defendant sexually abused the two special needs students at Altara Elementary School. They were five years old when the offenses allegedly ... More...    $0 (07-25-2015 - UT)

¶1 After a bench trial, Stephen Dale Bingham was convicted of stalking, a class A misdemeanor. The trial court sentenced Bingham to nine months in jail and imposed a fine of $1,000. Bingham appeals his conviction. We affirm.
State v. Bingham
20130782-CA 2 2015 UT App 103
BACKGROUND1
¶2 The trial court relied on three separate incidents to find Bingham guilty of stalking. The firs... More...    $0 (04-23-2015 - UT)

¶1 This case, like Nevares v. M.L.S., 2015 UT 34, presents ques-tions concerning the applicability and constitutionality of Utah Code section 78B-6-111. That provision forbids a biological father
1 Associate Chief Justice Nehring acted on this case prior to his retirement.
IN RE ADOPTION OF J.M.S.
Opinion of the Court
2
from challenging an adoption when his child was conceived... More...    $0 (02-06-2015 - UT)

¶1 Plaintiff Linda Rand appeals the trial court’s order
dismissing her claims against Defendants KOA Campgrounds,
1. The Honorable Pamela T. Greenwood, Senior Judge, sat by
special assignment as authorized by law. See generally Utah R. Jud.
Admin. 11-201(6).
Rand v. KOA
Victoria Orme, Doug Robinson, Don Boothroyd, Marlene
Boothroyd, J-J Bakd LC (collectively, KOA), a... More...    $0 (10-17-2014 - UT)

¶1 John Andrew Armstrong (Husband) appeals from the
Fourth District Court’s order entering a civil stalking injunction
against him and in favor of Candace Peterson (Grandmother).
1. The Honorable Pamela T. Greenwood and Russell W. Bench,
Senior Judges, sat by special assignment as authorized by law. See
generally Utah R. Jud. Admin. 11-201(6).
Peterson v. Armstrong
H... More...    $0 (10-17-2014 - UT)

¶1 Kristie Bullock appeals the district court’s entry of a civil
stalking injunction against her. Bullock argues that the district
court’s ruling was not supported by sufficient evidence and that
the district court erred by prohibiting her from impeaching
petitioner Peter David Zappe with evidence of a prior felony
conviction. We affirm.
Zappe v. Bullock
I. Suffici... More...    $0 (10-23-2014 - UT)

¶1 Sarah Ann LoPrinzi appeals her two convictions for unlawful sexual activity with a minor, asserting that the trial court erred in multiple ways. First, she contends that the trial
1. The Honorable Russell W. Bench, Senior Judge, sat by special assignment as authorized by law. See generally Utah R. Jud. Admin. 11-201(6).
State v. LoPrinzi
20120513-CA 2 2014 UT App 256
court shou... More...    $0 (10-23-2014 - UT)

¶ 1 This case involves a dispute among family members over control of ranch land in Northern Utah. Diane A. Jorgensen
1. The Honorable Pamela T. Greenwood, Senior Judge, sat by special assignment as authorized by law. See generally Utah R. Jud. Admin. 11-201(6).
In the matter of the Anna Blackham Aagard Trust
20120789-CA 2 2014 UT App 269
raises sheep on the land. Her brother, W. ... More...    $0 (11-14-2014 - UT)

¶ 1 This case involves a child custody agreement made by divorcing parents. The agreement contemplated that L.B.
1. The Honorable Judith M. Billings, Senior Judge, sat by special assignment as authorized by law. See generally Utah R. Jud. Admin. 11-201(6).
R.B. v. L.B.
20130188-CA 2 2014 UT App 270
(Mother) would have custody of their minor son (Child) until he entered the seventh... More...    $0 (11-14-2014 - UT)

¶1 Paul Thomas appeals from a civil stalking injunction entered
against him. We affirm the injunction, with two important
clarifications.
¶2 Daniel James Sheeran, who petitioned for the civil stalking
injunction against Thomas, had worked for several years with
Thomas’s girlfriend. Thomas thought that Sheeran was harassing
and annoying his girlfriend at work and made ef... More...    $0 (12-11-2014 - UT)

¶1 Nathaniel Shane Gainer1 appeals his sentence following his
conviction of aggravated robbery, a first degree felony. Gainer
claims that his prison sentence was both inherently unfair and
unreasonable in light of the particular facts and circumstances of
this case and that he was denied due process because his sentence
was based on unreliable information. We affirm.
1. Th... More...    $0 (12-11-2014 - UT)

¶1 Valorie Y. Shimoda and the Estate of Brett R. Reitz
(collectively, Petitioners) seek judicial review of the Utah Labor
Commission’s decision denying workers’ compensation benefits
pursuant to Utah’s Workers’ Compensation Act. We decline to
disturb the Commission’s decision.
¶2 On May 31, 2007, while employed by Hilti Inc., Brett Reitz
was injured after fallin... More...    $0 (12-11-2014 - UT)

¶1 On certiorari, petitioner Andrew LeBeau asks us to
consider whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district
court’s imposition of a sentence of life without the possibility of
parole following Mr. LeBeau’s conviction for aggravated kidnapping
pursuant to Utah Code section 76-5-302. Mr. LeBeau’s conviction
stems from a domestic dispute triggered by Mr. LeB... More...    $0 (09-19-2014 - UT)

¶1 Nearly twenty-six years ago, a jury convicted Ralph Leroy Menzies of the first degree murder of Maurine Hunsaker. At sentencing, Judge Raymond Uno imposed the death penalty. Since then, we have issued three opinions in Mr. Menzies‘s case:
MENZIES v. STATE
Opinion of the Court
2
two from direct appeals1 and one from a post-conviction appeal.2 In Mr. Menzies‘s first post-conv... More...    $0 (09-23-2010 - UT)

Chris Hogan lost his job with the Utah Telecommunications Open
Infrastructure Agency, or “UTOPIA,� a state agency charged with upgrading
high-speed internet access. Claiming he was fired for revealing a conflict of
interest in contract awards, he threatened to sue the agency for wrongful
termination. Shortly after making this threat, he was subject to several
unflattering m... More...    $0 (08-06-2014 - UT)

¶1 N.V. (Father) appeals the termination of his parental rights
to his child, N.V. We affirm.
In re. N.V.
20140141-CA 2 2014 UT App 94
¶2 “[I]n order to overturn the juvenile court’s decision, the
result must be against the clear weight of the evidence or leave the
appellate court with a firm and definite conviction that a mistake
has been made.â€� In re B.R., 200... More...    $0 (04-24-2014 - UT)

¶1 John Reynolds appeals from the trial court’s dismissal of his
intentional tort claims against Bret MacFarlane. We affirm in part,
reverse in part, and remand to the trial court.
¶2 On August 5, 2009, MacFarlane walked into the break room
at his workplace where his coworker, Reynolds, was standing in
Reynolds v. MacFarlane
2. “On appeal from a bench trial, we view t... More...    $0 (03-13-2014 - UT)

¶1 Plaintiff Josue Castellanos appeals from the district court’s
grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant Tommy John,
LLC (Tommy John) on Castellanos’s claims for negligent hiring and
for vicarious liability based on intentional torts committed by a
security company’s employees. We affirm.
Castellanos v. Tommy John, LLC
BACKGROUND1
¶2 On August 14, 2009, ... More...    $0 (02-27-2014 - UT)

¶1 Defendant Pailate Lomu appeals his conviction on a charge
of aggravated robbery. See Utah Code Ann. § 76-2-202 (LexisNexis
2012); id. § 76-6-302. He argues that there was insufficient evidence
to support his conviction and that the court erred when admitting
evidence of other bad acts under rule 404(b) of the Utah Rules of
Evidence. We affirm.
BACKGROUND1
¶2 In A... More...    $0 (02-27-2014 - UT)

¶1 Defendant Dennis Lingmann was arrested in 2008 for multiple sex offenses involving a minor. While awaiting trial in the Salt Lake County Jail, he offered his cellmate (Cellmate) $2,000 to kill the minor and her family. Cellmate contacted
1. The Honorable Russell W. Bench, Senior Judge, sat by special assignment as authorized by law. See generally Utah Code Jud. Admin. R. 11-201(6).
Sta... More...    $0 (02-21-2014 - UT)

¶1 Colter Thomas Allen (Husband) and Lacee C. Allen (Wife) were married on June 13, 2009, and are the parents of a young daughter (Daughter). Husband filed for divorce in 2010, and after a bench trial, the trial court awarded Husband physical custody of Daughter, refused Wife’s request for alimony and attorney fees, and awarded both the marital home and the marital debt to Husband. Wife appeals... More...    $0 (01-30-2014 - UT)

¶1 Clark Bruce Kidd (Husband) appeals from several orders of the trial court related to the dissolution of his marriage to Elaine J. Kidd (Wife). We affirm.
Kidd v. Kidd
20120460-CA 2 2014 UT App 26
BACKGROUND1
¶2 Husband and Wife married on March 13, 1980, and divorced on March 9, 2012, after thirty-two years of marriage. Although the parties were able to agree on most of the te... More...    $0 (01-30-2014 - UT)