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“Abortion care remains available in Utah after state Supreme Court ruling — for now; Abortion is legal up to 18 weeks while the state awaits a lower court’s ruling on Planned Parenthood Association of Utah’s lawsuit alleging that a near-total abortion ban is unconstitutional”

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Hanna Seariac of The Deseret News reports that “ Utah Supreme Court continues to block state law banning elective abortions.” ” You can access today’s 4-to-1 ruling of the Supreme Court of Utah at this link. ” David W.

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“Utah Supreme Court Rules That Alleged Sexual Assault by a Doctor Is Not ‘Health Care’; The decision revives a lawsuit filed by 94 women who said their OB-GYN sexually abused them; Previously, a lower court determined that the actions they alleged had to be treated as medical malpractice”

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Utah Supreme Court Rules That Alleged Sexual Assault by a Doctor Is Not ‘Health Care’; The decision revives a lawsuit filed by 94 women who said their OB-GYN sexually abused them; Previously, a lower court determined that the actions they alleged had to be treated as medical malpractice”: Jessica Miller of The Salt Lake Tribune (..)

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US appeals court rules in favor of Native American tribe’s hunting rights on ceded lands

JURIST

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday in favor of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation’s dispute with the state of Idaho regarding the tribe’s hunting rights on US land. Rather, they reside in northern Utah and southern Idaho.

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Utah Supreme Court rules for adult adoptee who wanted to unseal records for medical and genetic information

ABA Journal

A district court misinterpreted the law when it ruled that an adult adoptee can’t obtain her 1978 adoption records to provide her doctors with information…

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Ohio Supreme Court rules judges not required to defer to state agency interpretations of ambiguous laws

JURIST

The Ohio Supreme Court Thursday ruled that Ohio courts do not have to defer to a state agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous law. The Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas reversed the Board’s decision without affording any deference to the agency’s interpretation of the relevant statute.

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US Supreme Court will not reconsider birthright citizenship for American Samoans

JURIST

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to consider whether people born in American Samoa are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. “People from the territories deserve better from this Court and better from this nation.”

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US Supreme Court declines to hear case regarding jury size in felony trials

JURIST

The United States Supreme Court Monday denied the appeal of Ramin Khorrami, an Arizona man who was convicted of fraud before an eight-member jury. Six states in the US allow for trials before six or eight-person juries in felony cases: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts and Utah.

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