Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with murder.

In 2018, Defendant Brandon Redfoot fatally shot Julio Rodriguez. On August 18, 2023, a jury found Redfoot guilty of the following counts: Count One murder in the second degree while within Indian Country, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1111(a) and 1153(a); Count Two assault with a dangerous weapon ... More...    $0 (03-31-2025 - 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)

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 criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with second degree murder in Indian Country.

18:1111 and 1153(a) MURDER, SECOND DEGREE Murder in the Second Degree While Within Indian Country
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18:924(c)(1)(A)(iii) VIOLENT CRIME/DRUGS/MACHINE GUN Use, Carry, and Discharge of a Firearm During and In Relation to a Crime of Violence; 18:924(d) and... More...    $0 (08-29-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah civil rights lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on civil rights violation theories.


In December 2020, Ms. Amboh was pulled over and arrested for traffic violations in Roosevelt City, Utah. Ms. Amboh was later convicted for interference with an arresting officer and operating a vehicle without insurance in the Eighth District Court of the Sta... More...    $0 (09-18-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah civil litigation lawyers represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant on a breach of contract theory for damages sustained as a result of a data breach.


This case is a proposed class action pertaining to a data breach of Plaintiffs' work email accounts in 2021. Plaintiffs worked for a job skill training non-profit company, Defendant Easter-Seals-Goodwill, which had ... More...    $0 (07-18-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with discharging a firearm during and in relation to carjacking and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute offenses.

On May 19, 2021, James Howard Klein, 35, of Chaska, Minnesota, was stopped by deputies in Juab County off Interstate-15 for a traffic violation. During a search of the Klein’s v... More...    $0 (05-26-2023 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah civil rights lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a prisoner civil rights violation wrongful death theory.

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.


Ms. ... More...    $0 (07-26-2022 - 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)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyers represented Defendants who were charged with unlawfully obtaining a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for Frisbu Trucking, Incorporated, where they were both employed.

Rowberry was sentenced to prison for a term of 12 months and a day last week in federal court. Her co-defendant, Hubert Ivan Ugarte, was sentenced to a term of 36 months i... More...    $0 (07-16-2021 - UT)

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud.

Lisa Bradshaw Rowberry, 49, of Provo, was charged with Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud.

According to the plea agreement, Rowberry admitted to submitting a fraudulent loan application to Transportation Alliance Bank in Ogden, Utah, for PPP lo... More...    $0 (05-10-2021 - UT)

Charles Payan appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of
United Parcel Service (“UPS”) in relation to his claims for racial discrimination and
retaliation arising under Title VII and 42 U.S.C. § 1981, as well as his state law claims
for breach of contract and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
Exercising jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C.... More...    $0 (10-10-2018 - UT)

Kang Sik Park appeals the district court’s dismissal of his suit against First American Title Insurance Company (“First American”) as time-barred. Exercising jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, we reverse and remand.
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In 2006, in relation to a loan to Peter and Virginia Lamb, Park obtained a commitment from First American to insure a real estate deed of trust for property in Salt Lake Co... More...    $0 (07-25-2018 - UT)

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 pr... More...    $0 (07-30-2018 - UT)

Salt Lake City, UT - Armed Utah Drug Trafficker Sentenced To 180 Months In Federal Prison

A Vernal, Utah, man will spend 180 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense.

U.S. District Judge Jill N. Parrish sentenced Steven Dean Hardinger, age 3... More...    $0 (07-10-2018 - 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)

Salt Lake City, UT - Utah PSN Partners Target Those Who “Lie-And-Try” To Purchase A Firearm; Two Federal Firearms Licensees Also Charged

Utah Project Safe Neighborhoods partners have a message for those who “lie-and-try” in attempting to purchase a firearm from federal firearms licensees in Utah: If you lie on paperwork you are required to complete to purchase a firearm, you may end up f... More...    $0 (05-10-2018 - 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)

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 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 Riverton City (the City) fired Chris LaMont from his position as a construction supervisor after he refused to submit to a “reasonable suspicion drug [and alcohol] test” while on duty. LaMont appealed his termination, and the Riverton City Board of Appeals (the Board) upheld the City’s decision. LaMont now seeks judicial review of the Board’s conclusion, claiming that (1) the City did not have ... 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)

This appeal arises from a contract dispute between Lynn Becker and the Ute
Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.1 Our concern, however, is not the
merits of the dispute but jurisdiction. Mr. Becker, who is not an Indian, pursued his
claim against the Tribe in Utah state court. The Tribe responded by filing suit in the
United States District Court for the District of Uta... More...    $0 (08-25-2017 - UT)

¶1 Hadley Christensen claims reimbursement pursuant to Utah
Code section 52-6-201, from his former employer, Juab School
District, for attorney fees and costs incurred in a successful defense
against charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child. The two issues
before us are (1) whether the right to reimbursement attaches based
on the allegations within the information, or unde... More...    $0 (08-11-2017 - UT)

¶1 In 2003, L + C Unlimited Corporation (L + C) was assigned
the lease that permitted the Golden Isle Restaurant to operate in a
strip mall in Murray, Utah. Xiao-Yan Cao, L + C’s president,
personally guaranteed L + C’s performance. In 2006, the lease was
again assigned, this time to Hong G. Lin. As part of that assignment,
the lease term was extended until September 30, 2013, ... More...    $0 (08-24-2017 - UT)

Gabriel Joseph purchased a home for $3.4 million through a company that he
controlled and then sold it to himself five days later for $7 million. Using the
fraudulently inflated value, he received a loan and line of credit from Washington
Mutual (“WaMu”) totaling $5,659,357.88. After Joseph defaulted, WaMu purchased
the property in foreclosure. With an outstanding principal balance... More...    $0 (08-10-2017 - 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)

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, the... More...    $0 (09-18-2015 - UT)

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)

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

Cite as: 2015 UT 81 Opinion of the Court

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condensate from the refining process, which continuously f... More...    $0 (09-04-2015 - UT)