Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal reentry after removal.

8 U.S.C. 1325, also known as the "Improper Entry by Alien" law, makes it a crime for an alien to enter or attempt to enter the United States at a time or place not designated by immigration officers. It also covers eluding inspection by immigration officials or entering using... More...    $0 (07-31-2025 - UT)

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)

Draper, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with sexually abusing another officer.

Chad Carpenter, age 52, of Herriman, Utah, was charged in 2019 with two counts of forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felony... More...    $0 (08-03-2023 - 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 personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a premises liability theory claiming to have been injured as a result of a dangerous condition on Defendant's property.


¶1 When Lee Stafford encountered a puddle on a hotel elevator's tile floor, he slipped, caught himself, and later sought compensation for a back injury that he believed resulte... More...    $0 (06-24-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with filing a false tax return, tax evasion and engaging in a corrupt endeavor.

Derald Wilford Geddes, of Ogden, was a dentist who owned and operated Mount Ogden Dental PC. From approximately 1998 through 2014, Geddes took numerous steps to evade approximately $1.8 million in back federal income taxes that he owed.... More...    $0 (03-22-2022 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT: Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with tax evasion and corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the IRS.

In March 2012, Louis Hansen, of Orem, presented the IRS a $342,669.41 check he knew was drawn on a closed bank account, in a fraudulent effort to evade paying taxes, penalties and interest he owed for a number of years. In June 2012, Hansen presented 10... More...    $0 (11-02-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with attempting to evade the payment of his federal income taxes and corruptly endeavoring to impair the administration of the internal revenue laws.

According to the evidence presented at trial and other court documents, in March 2012, Louis Hansen, of Orem, presented a check to the IRS in the amount of $342,699.4... More...    $0 (08-13-2021 - UT)

Conrad Truman sued state prosecutor Craig Johnson and various Orem City
police officers for violating his civil rights by fabricating evidence that was used
against him in a murder prosecution. Mr. Truman was prosecuted twice for the
murder of his wife. According to Mr. Truman’s complaint, the prosecution
knowingly falsified measurements of the murder scene to rule out the possib... More...    $0 (06-04-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah government property trespassing criminal defense lawyer represented John Earle Sullivan, age 26, who was charged with violation of 18 U.S.C 1852, Restricted Building or Grounds; 18 U.S.C. 231, Civil Disorders; and 40 U.S.C. 5104, Violent Entry of Disorderly Conduct for entering the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.

It is being reported that Defe... More...    $0 (01-14-2021 - UT)

Roland Critchfield slipped and fell on the wet, soapy bathroom floor of a
Buffalo Wild Wings Bar & Grill (“Buffalo Wild Wings”) in Sandy, Utah.
Critchfield brought suit against Blazin Wings, Inc. (“Blazin”), the parent
company of Buffalo Wild Wings, asserting injuries he suffered in the slip-and-fall
*This order and judgment is not binding precedent except under the
doctrines o... More...    $0 (07-19-2018 - UT)

Xlear, Inc. and Focus Nutrition, LLC are both in the business of selling
sweeteners that use the sugar alcohol xylitol. Xlear filed a complaint raising a trade
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dress infringement claim under the Lanham Act, a claim under the Utah Truth in
Advertising Act (UTIAA), and a claim under the common law for unfair competition.
The claims all alleged that Focus Nutrition copied the pa... More...    $0 (06-30-2018 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Robert Stoedter sued Salt Lake County, Riverton City, Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake,Kenneth C. Gates, Kenyon T. Madsen, Gregg Shaver and Brooks Green on civil rights violation theories.

01/30/2015 173 CLERK'S JUDGMENT - This action came before the Court for a trial by jury. The issues have been tried and the jury has rendered its verdict. IT IS ORDER... More...    $0 (01-30-2018 - ut)

Salt Lake City, UT - Heather Buchanan sued Sharon Lewis on an auto negligence theory.

Defendant's attorneys removed the case the federal court.

03/21/2018 22 Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge Clark Waddoups: Status Conference held on 3/21/2018. Plaintiff states that after totaling all the damages it results in less than $50,000 which would result in a remand back t... More...    $0 (04-19-2018 - UT)

¶1 Bruce W. Lauritzen purchased five lots of undeveloped
real property in Hurricane, Utah based on a description in a
recorded subdivision plat map. Lauritzen then purchased title
insurance for these lots through First American Title Insurance
Company (First American). Subsequently, Lauritzen learned that
the plat map had a material defect: one of his lots partially
overlap... More...    $0 (04-08-2018 - UT)

This is a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 case; the single issue presented involves the costs to
be awarded Plaintiffs after they prevailed at trial against Defendant Brian Bairett.
Ordinarily prevailing parties can recover litigation costs from their opponent. See
Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(d)(1). But Fed. R. Civ. P. 68 allows “a party defending against a
claim” to limit his liability for the other side... More...    $0 (03-10-2018 - 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)

Michael Johnson was charged and tried for murder. At trial, Mr. Johnson requested an instruction for the lesser offense of homicide by assault. The trial court agreed and stated on the record that it would use the homicide by assault instruction submitted by Mr. Johnson. ¶3 The jury returned a guilty verdict on the murder charge, and Mr. Johnson appealed his conviction to the court of appeals. H... More...    $0 (11-26-2017 - UT)

In November 2009, Benjamin Rettig and Martin Bond traveled from Vernal, Utah, to the home of Kay Mortensen in Spanish Fork, Utah.1 Mortensen owned a large supply of firearms that were located in a “bunker” behind his home. Bond and Rettig traveled to his home with the intent to steal some of his firearms. The two entered Mortensen’s home with a handgun while wearing ski masks and latex gloves. The... More...    $0 (11-26-2017 - UT)

¶1 More than nine years ago, Dennis Terry Wynn (Defendant) was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay restitution in excess of $700,000. Now he argues, among other things, that that amount renders his sentence illegal. Because we conclude that Defendant is not entitled to relief under the many theories he advances, we affirm the district court’s denial of his several motions.
BACKGROUND
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¶1 Chadley Keith Calvert appeals his convictions for aggravated assault, a third degree felony, and for threatening with or using a dangerous weapon in a fight or quarrel, a class A misdemeanor. Calvert contends that his trial counsel provided constitutionally ineffective assistance in failing to raise arguments related to double jeopardy and that the trial court exceeded its discretion in admitti... More...    $0 (11-20-2017 - UT)

¶1 After leaving an event at Peery’s Egyptian Theater late in the evening on February 16, 2013, Rose Flygare, Marjorie Bell, and a minor child (collectively, Plaintiffs1) were hit by a truck
1. Rose Flygare died during the pendency of this case and her estate was substituted as a plaintiff. Richard and Jennifer Pratt brought this action on behalf of the minor child. For ease of (continued…)More...    $0 (09-13-2017 - UT)

¶1 The oil and gas industry is a major economic force in the Uintah Basin. This industry relies, to some extent, on access to the Uintah and Ouray Reservation of the Ute Indian Tribe. The plaintiffs allege that, through its ability to restrict the industry’s access to tribal lands, the tribe has held hostage the economy of the non-Indian population.
¶2 Ryan Harvey, a plaintiff and part owner o... More...    $0 (11-07-2017 - UT)

¶1 This case involves a dispute between neighbors, in which both sides claim ownership of a strip of land that adjoins their respective properties (the subject property). Each side pursued a quiet title action against the other, and the district court granted summary judgment in favor of Amy S. Paul, the trustee of the Amy S. Paul Trust (the Trust), concluding that the Trust had acquired all right... More...    $0 (10-26-2017 - UT)

This appeal arises from the efforts of several whistleblowers to navigate the
procedural minefield of the False Claims Act (FCA). See 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733. In
2012, Joe Blyn commenced this FCA action by filing a sealed complaint in the district
court. The complaint named Donald Little as Blyn’s counsel of record. Months later,
Little filed an amended complaint that named himself ... More...    $0 (09-18-2017 - UT)

The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation1 appeals a preliminary
injunction ordering it not to proceed with litigation in tribal court against a nonmember
former contractor, Lynn Becker. The district court ruled that although the parties’
dispute would ordinarily come within the tribal court’s jurisdiction, their Independent
Contractor Agreement (the Contract) waived... More...    $0 (08-25-2017 - UT)

¶1 This case involves a dispute over a mining road built on Flagstaff Mountain (near Park City) over a century ago. The plaintiffs are Stichting Mayflower Mountain Fonds and Stichting Mayflower Recreation Fonds (collectively ―Mayflower‖). Defendants in the suit are owners of land traversed by the road. ¶2 Plaintiffs have asserted a right to use the road (1) as a public highway under t... More...    $0 (03-22-2017 - UT)

¶ 1 This case requires us to determine the scope of the “covered profession” clause of a “Professional Liability Errors & Omissions Insurance” policy (Policy). Houston Casualty Company (Houston Casualty) issued the Policy to Utah County Real Estate, LLC (Prudential), a real estate brokerage. While working as a real estate agent for Prudential, Robert Seegmiller approached the plaintiffs in this ac... More...    $0 (03-23-2017 - UT)

In June 2009, as part of a federal law-enforcement investigation known as
“Operation Cerberus,” FBI and Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) agents
arrested twenty-three people and searched twelve properties in and near three Utah
cities—Blanding, Monticello, and Moab. The operation targeted persons possessing
and trafficking in Native American artifacts illegally taken from the Four ... More...    $0 (02-14-2017 - UT)

Defendant Donald Bowers was previously involved in a civil trade secret
misappropriation case that was litigated in the United States District Court for the District
of Utah. During the course of that litigation, Bowers willfully and repeatedly violated a
permanent injunction issued by the district court presiding over the case, and also refused
to purge himself of civil contempt. ... More...    $0 (02-12-2017 - UT)

¶1 In 1910, the district court issued the Little Cottonwood Morse Decree, which established water rights for the Little

LITTLE COTTONWOOD v. SANDY CITY Opinion of the Court
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Cottonwood Creek. The decree also terminated a contract that conferred a right to use a portion of this water. The Morse Decree replaced the terminated contract with new terms that govern this contra... More...    $0 (10-27-2016 - UT)

We’re beginning to think we have an inkling of Sisyphus’s fate. Courts of
law exist to resolve disputes so that both sides might move on with their lives.
Yet here we are, forty years in, issuing our seventh opinion in the Ute line and
still addressing the same arguments we have addressed so many times before.
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Thirty years ago, this court decided all boundary disputes bet... More...    $0 (08-30-2016 - UT)

The government appeals only the district court’s ruling that it cannot proceed on
its reverse-piercing alter-ego theory.1 The court essentially ruled that the government had
failed to state a claim, regardless of the truth of its allegations. For the purposes of this
appeal, we therefore take the allegations of the government’s complaint (the Complaint)
as true, see Gee v. Pa... More...    $0 (03-26-2016 - UT)

In 2006, RIO Systems, Inc., a Texas corporation “interested in . . . projects related
to oil refinery planning, construction and finance in Central America,” hired Mr. Penedo,
the president of a Guatemalan “social service[s] and human rights foundation,” Aplee.
Supp. App., Vol. I at 262, “to act as a facilitator and lobbyist to the Guatemalan
government” for the construction of... More...    $0 (01-24-2016 - 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 May 20, 2002, Mr. Wade and Darrin Rhodes went to service the Sundown Well, which is located in Meadow, Utah.2 In
1 Mr. Wade and his wife first filed the tort suit against FEA. They added Dixie as a defendant after learning that the utility employees involved in the accident were leased by Dixie to FEA. 2 In evaluating cross-motions for summary judgment, we recite the facts in the light mo... More...    $0 (09-26-2015 - UT)

Mill Man Steel fired Kendall Utley on suspicion that he had misappropriated steel from the company. In so doing, Mill Man refused to pay Utley the commissions he claimed to have earned, asserting a right to withhold the commissions as an offset against the value of the allegedly misappropriated steel. Utley filed this suit, claiming that Mill Man had violated the Utah Payment of Wages Act (UPWA). ... More...    $0 (09-14-2015 - UT)