Utah Intentional Tort Law
<h2> <center> United States of America v. Robert Sutherland Maclean </h2> </center>
Salt Lake City, Utah, criminal defense lawyer represents the Defendant charged withabusive sexual contact while in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2244(b) and 2246(3), and 49 U.S.C. § 46506. Reported by <a href="https://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28729&z=74119&s=OK" target="_new">Kent Morlan</a> Robert Sutherl... More...
$ (06-18-2026 - UT)Leanne Crowe v. SRR Partners, et al.
<font color="red"><h2><br> Salt Lake City, Utah civil rights lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on an Americans with Disabilities Act Violation theory.<br> </font </color="red"></h2><br> <br> 42 U.S.C. 12101 provides:<br> <br> The Congress finds that—<br> (1) physical or mental disabilities in no way diminish a person's right to fully participate in all aspects of society, yet many ... More...
$1 (06-14-2024 - UT)Jeanine Nielsen v. Home Depot, USA, Inc.
Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury slip and fall lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a premises liability theory.<br> <br> Under Utah's premises liability rules, a property owner can be held responsible for injuries to visitors. It does not matter if those injuries were intentional or unintentional. Property owners are liable if they fail to guard or warn visitors of a dangerous struct... More...
$0 (03-15-2024 - UT)Cindy Brady v. United States of America
Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury car wreck lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a Federal Tort Claims Act auto negligence theory.<br> <br> Under the FTCA, the federal government acts as a self-insurer, and recognizes liability for the negligent or wrongful acts or omissions of its employees acting within the scope of their official duties.<br> <br> ... More...
$1 (03-20-2024 - UT)Becky Rathke v. Walmart, Inc.
Salt Lake City, Utah personal injury slip and fall lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a premises liability negligence theory.<br> <br> Under Utah's premises liability rules, a property owner can be held responsible for injuries to visitors. It does not matter if those injuries were intentional or unintentional. Property owners are liable if they fail to guard or warn visito... More...
$1 (01-26-2024 - UT)Christopher J. Wilson v. Mid-Century Insurance
Salt Lake City, Utah insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a bad faith breach of an insurance contract.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> K... More...
$0 (12-08-2023 - UT)Hal Jenkins, et al. v. Prime Insurance Co., et al.
Salt Lake City, Utah insurance law lawyers represented Plaintiff who sued Defendants on bad faith breach of an insurance contract theory.<br> <br> Plaintiffs Hal Jenkins, as assignee of certain claims of CLJ Healthcare, LLC ("CLJ"), and CLJ, as to certain non-assigned claims, (collectively "Plaintiffs") filed a complaint against Defendants in connection with their sale and administration of an ins... More...
$0 (07-31-2023 - UT)Alyssa Aguila v. Planned Parenthood of Utah and Adriana Rodriguez Navarro
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)Cynthia Stella v. Davis County
Salt Lake City, Utah civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a prisoner civil rights violation wrongful death theory.<br> <br> Cynthia Stella, individually and on behalf of The Estate of Heather Miller, deceased, sued Davis County Utah on a 1983 prisoner civil rights theory claiming that Heather Miller died as a direct result of deliberate indifference.<br> <br> <br> Ms. ... More...
$0 (07-26-2022 - UT)Alex Taylor and Nallely Taylor v. National Collegiate Student Loan Trust 2007-1, et al.
Salt Lake City, UT: Personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiffs, who sued Defendant on a tort theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of a negligent or intentional wrongful act, error or omission on the part of the Defendant.<br> <br> The claims made and defenses asserted are not available for this case.<br> <br> This case was initially fi... More...
$0 (10-28-2021 - UT)Conrad Truman v. Orem City, et al. </h1>
Conrad Truman sued state prosecutor Craig Johnson and various Orem City<br> police officers for violating his civil rights by fabricating evidence that was used<br> against him in a murder prosecution. Mr. Truman was prosecuted twice for the<br> murder of his wife. According to Mr. Truman's complaint, the prosecution<br> knowingly falsified measurements of the murder scene to rule out the possibil... More...
$0 (06-04-2021 - UT)Conrado Esheverria, Hilda Munguia and Sariah Echeverria v. United States of America
Ogden, Utah personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiffs who used The United States of America on auto negligence Federal Tort Claims Act theories claiming $300,000 in damages and/or injuries.... More...
$1 (05-07-2021 - UT)United States of America v. Aaron Michael Shamo
Salt Lake City, Utah drug trafficking criminal lawyer represented defendant.<br> <br> Aaron Michael Shamo, the CEO of a nationwide dark net was charged with running a drug trafficking organization that distributed more than a half million counterfeit pills throughout the country. <br> <br> A federal jury found Shamo guilty of organizing and directing a drug trafficking organization that imported f... More...
$0 (10-30-2020 - UT)Blake Edward Hafacre v. United States of America
Salt Lake City, UT - Plaintiff Personal Injury Lawyer, Federal Tort Claims Act<br> <br> <center><h2><font color="Blue">M</font>oreLaw <font color="Red">M</font>arketing<br> <font color="Red">Cost Effective Internet Marketing for Legal Professionals</font><br> Info@MoreLaw.com - 855-853-4800 <br> <h2></center><br> <br> Blake Edward Hafacre sued the United States of America on Federal Tort Claims... More...
$1 (09-24-2020 - UT)United States of America v. Elet Neilson
Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Elet Neilson with stealing pain medications from patients.<br> <br> Elet Neilson, age 53, of Layton, a former emergency room nurse who admitted to tampering with controlled substances intended for patients and diverting the drugs for her own use, will serve 60 months in federal prison. <br> <br> As a result of the tampering and diversion, ... More...
$0 (01-30-2020 - UT)United States of America v. Gary Mark Hill
Salt Lake City, UT - The United States of America charged Gary Mark Hill with importing and dealing machine guns and illegal possession and transfer of machine guns.<br> <br> A federal jury convicted Gary Mark Hill, age 42, of Salt Lake City of unlawfully engaging in the business of importing and dealing machine guns and illegal possession and transfer of machine guns Wednesday afternoon followin... More...
$0 (12-30-2019 - UT)United States of America v. Aaron Michael Shamo
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/ephox_images/slcCourthouse-blurred-large_1396391063940.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> Salt Lake City, UT - Jury Convicts Shamo of Leading Drug Trafficking Network for distribution <br> more than half a million counterfeit pills throughout the country <br> <br> A federal jury in Salt Lake City returned guilty verdicts on August 30, 2019 finding A... More...
$0 (09-10-2019 - UT)Advanced Recovery Systems v. American Agencies
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/ephox_images/slcCourthouse-blurred-large_1396391063940.jpg"><br> </center><br> This appeal grew out of Mr. Brent Sloan’s participation in two<br> transactions. The first transaction entailed a merger between Advanced<br> Recovery Systems, LLC and Kinum, Inc.;1 the second transaction consisted<br> of a sale of software from Kinum to Sajax Sof... More...
$0 (05-07-2019 - UT)Larry Drake Hansen v. Salt Lake City Corporation
<center><br> <img width="300" src="https://www.gsa.gov/ephox_images/slcCourthouse-blurred-large_1396391063940.jpg"><br> </center><br> <br> Larry Drake Hansen, proceeding pro se, appeals the district court’s judgment<br> dismissing his civil rights action under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) and its order denying<br> his post-judgment motion under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(a) and (b). Exercising jurisdiction<... More...
$0 (03-05-2019 - UT)Marcia Eisenhour v. Weber County, et al.
Plaintiff Marcia Eisenhour worked for 24 years as a court administrator for the Weber County Justice Court. In 2008, when her supervisor was Judge Craig Storey, the only judge of that court, she complained to the county attorney about sexual harassment by Storey. The matter was referred to Utah’s Judicial Conduct Commission, which found no misconduct. Eisenhour then went public in 2009, and the ... More...
$0 (07-30-2018 - UT)Roland Critchfield v. Blazin Wings, Inc., d/b/a Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar
Roland Critchfield slipped and fell on the wet, soapy bathroom floor of a<br> Buffalo Wild Wings Bar & Grill (“Buffalo Wild Wings”) in Sandy, Utah.<br> Critchfield brought suit against Blazin Wings, Inc. (“Blazin”), the parent<br> company of Buffalo Wild Wings, asserting injuries he suffered in the slip-and-fall<br> *This order and judgment is not binding precedent except under the<br> doc... More...
$0 (07-19-2018 - UT)Silvan Warnick v. Bradford Cooley; Robin Wilkins; Ethan Rampton; Mark Knighton; Jeffrey Hall
Silvan Warnick brings this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 malicious prosecution case<br> and a number of state law tort claims against several Salt Lake County<br> prosecutors and investigators. He claims he was falsely accused of tampering<br> with evidence that led to the filing of criminal charges against him that were later<br> dismissed.<br> The district court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss, ... More...
$0 (07-10-2018 - UT)George Nicholaou v. United States of America <P> <font color="red"><a href="http://www.morelaw.com/vendors/vendor.asp?f=Kent&l=Morlan&i=28536&z=74103&s=OK" target="_new">Morelaw Internet Marketing for Legal Professionals</a> <br> MoreLaw Can Make Your Phone Ring <br> 888-354-4529 </font>
Ogden, UT - George Nicholaou sued The United States of America on an auto negligence theory under the Federal Tort Claims Act.... More...
$0 (03-23-2018 - UT)STATE OF UTAH v. BENJAMIN DAVID RETTIG <table> <td>
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 glove... More...
$0 (11-26-2017 - UT)Ryan Harvey v. Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Quray Reservation, et al.
¶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.<br> ¶2 Ryan Harvey, a plaintiff and part own... More...
$0 (11-07-2017 - UT)E. Jeffrey Donner v. Jack Nicklaus
E. Jeffrey Donner and Judee Donner appeal the district court’s dismissal of<br> their intentional misrepresentation claim against Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus<br> Golf Club, LLC (collectively “Nicklaus”). Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.<br> § 1291, we affirm.<br> I<br> We will not discuss in detail the background facts of this case, which are<br> covered in our prior opinion, Don... More...
$0 (11-07-2017 - UT)United States of America v. Essential Oils, L.C.
Salt Lake City, UT - Essential Oils Company Sentenced for Lacey Act and Endangered Species Act Violations to Pay $760,000 in Fines, Forfeiture, and Community Service, and to Implement a Comprehensive Compliance Plan<br> <br> YOUNG LIVING ESSENTIAL OILS, L.C., (the Company), headquartered in Lehi, Utah, pleaded guilty in federal court to federal misdemeanor charges regarding its illegal trafficking... More...
$760000 (09-19-2017 - UT)Natealie Heslop v. Bear River Mutual Insurance Company
¶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.” H... More...
$0 (01-24-2017 - UT)The Estate of James D. Reed v. Daniel Love
In June 2009, as part of a federal law-enforcement investigation known as<br> “Operation Cerberus,” FBI and Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) agents<br> arrested twenty-three people and searched twelve properties in and near three Utah<br> cities—Blanding, Monticello, and Moab. The operation targeted persons possessing<br> and trafficking in Native American artifacts illegally taken from... More...
$0 (02-14-2017 - UT)Jesus Monarrez v. Utah Department of Transportation
¶ 1 We granted certiorari in this case to decide whether the court of appeals correctly determined that the Utah Governmental Immunity Act (GIA) barred Jesus Monarrez‘s claims. Mr. Monarrez, after being injured when forced to stop suddenly near a construction crew on a Utah road, attempted to bring a negligence claim against the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) and several unnamed R... More...
$0 (03-09-2016 - UT)Terry Holmes v. Chris Cannon
¶1 In Panos v. Smith’s Food & Drug Centers, Inc., 913 P.2d 363 (Utah Ct. App. 1996), the court of appeals held that when a judge issues an order dismissing a case for failure to prosecute, but fails to explicitly provide that the case is dismissed with prejudice or pursuant to Utah Rule of Civil Procedure 41(b), the presumption is that the case is dismissed without prejudice. <br> <br> ¶2 Toda... More...
$0 (09-08-2016 - UT)Jones v. Norton
This case arises from the death of Ute Tribe member Todd R. Murray on<br> April 1, 2007, following a police pursuit. Murray’s parents Debra Jones and<br> Arden Post, on behalf of themselves and Murray’s estate, brought a 13-count<br> complaint in the district court alleging various constitutional violations under 42<br> U.S.C. § 1983, conspiracy to violate civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 198... More...
$0 (12-29-2015 - UT)Flowell v. Rhodes
On May 20, 2002, Mr. Wade and Darrin Rhodes went to service the Sundown Well, which is located in Meadow, Utah.2 In <br> 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)Pang v. International Document
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 Manage... More...
$0 (09-20-2015 - UT)Ray, et al. v. Wal-Mart
This case arises out of two separate incidents involving WalMart employees and shoplifters.2 Each of the Employees was tasked with, among other things, investigating, documenting, and preventing the theft of merchandise by customers and employees from Wal-Mart stores. The Employees were fired for violating WalMart‘s Policy AP-09, which provides, If the Suspect is believed to possess a weapon, t... More...
$0 (09-18-2015 - UT)Helf v. Chevron
Chevron operates an oil refinery near Salt Lake City. The refinery contains a concrete-lined, open-air pit that is used to process various liquid and solid waste products from the refinery. One of the liquid waste products collected in the pit is mildly acidic steam condensate from the refining process, which continuously flows into the pit. Before the pit is emptied, workers ensure that the pH le... More...
$0 (09-14-2015 - UT)Helf v. Chevron,
Chevron operates an oil refinery near Salt Lake City. The refinery contains a concrete-lined, open-air pit that is used to process various liquid and solid waste products from the refinery. One of the liquid waste products collected in the pit is mildly acidic steam <br> <br> Cite as: 2015 UT 81 Opinion of the Court <br> <br> 3 <br> <br> condensate from the refining process, which continuously f... More...
$0 (09-04-2015 - UT)Innosys v. Mercer
<P><br> <center><br> <img width="200" src="http://www.alpinecourtreporting.com/images/acrlogo.png"><br> <P><br> </center><br> ¶4 In January of 2008, immediately following Amanda Mercer‘s graduation from the University of Utah, InnoSys hired her as an engineer. Per its standard practice, InnoSys had Mercer sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). By signing, Mercer promised not to ―copy, tra... More...
$0 (09-01-2015 - UT)Kirkbride v. Terex USA
<P><br> <center><br> <a href="http://www.alpinecourtreporting.com/" target="_new"><img width="200" src="http://www.alpinecourtreporting.com/images/acrlogo.png"></a><br> <P><br> </center><br> In 1980 Terex’s predecessor manufactured and sold the portable rock-crushing <br> plant at issue. As the name suggests, a rock-crushing plant is a large machine that <br> crushes larger rocks into smaller o... More...
$0 (08-31-2015 - UT)Wash. Co. Sch. Dist. v. Lbr Comm'n and Steven H. Brown
In January 2003, Steven Brown, suffered a back injury when he fell down the steps of his bus while at work as a school bus driver for the Washington County School District (School District). This injury required medical treatment and eventual spinal surgery. He received workers‘ compensation for this injury. Subsequently, in September 2007, Mr. Brown was reinjured when a child jumped on his back... More...
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