Learn more about Mary Ellen Sloan (JD '75), Utah's first Native American woman lawyer, and her long career helping to restore tribal rights!
Stephen Dent (JD '14) was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Utah Supreme Court, subject to Senate consent. Dent is an assistant U.S. attorney who previously worked at the D.C. firm Gibson Dunn before joining the Department of Justice.
Rising 3L James Gee and (holding the Utah sign) and Lucy Christensen (MLS '26) were selected as Utah delegates for the Model Constitutional Convention held at @washulaw.bsky.social! The event is modeled after a convention described in the U.S. Constitution.
Lecturer Professor Amos Guiora, who leads Utah Law's Bystander Initiative, has published an op-ed about the crime of enabling in @thehill.com.
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Professor John Ruple, an environmental law expert, is quoted in this @utahnewsdispatch.com article about Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Celeste Maloy's proposal to repeal Biden-era standards for managing Bears Ears National Monument.
Professor Cliff Rosky, a constitutional law expert, was quoted in this @abc4utah.bsky.social article about a Tennessee man who was jailed for posting a meme about Charlie Kirk's death. Rosky weighed in on a lawsuit settlement from the state.
Professor @teneille.bsky.social was interviewed on the @citycastsaltlake.bsky.social podcast about the effect of politics on Utah's judiciary system.
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Professor @jcontreras.bsky.social is quoted in the @nytimes.com about a U.S. state court in North Dakota that issued an anti-suit injunction against Greenpeace's prosecution of a Dutch freedom of expression action in a U.S. tort case involving protests over a pipeline.
Lecturer Professor Amos Guiora, who directs Utah Law's Bystander Initiative, is quoted in @theguardian.com about Epstein assistant Lesley Groff and whether she knew about Epstein's crimes.
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Lucy Christensen (MLS '26) and rising 3L James Gee were selected to represent Utah at the Model Constitutional Convention hosted by the Washington University (WashU)...
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In December 2024, while sitting at home outside Jerusalem, I received the most extraordinary email possible. The subject line was the name of my late grandfather, murdered in Auschwitz in May 1944.…
Utah's Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Celeste Maloy are trying a new strategy to undo a plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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Stories of her father attending the Haskell Institute, a Native American boarding school in Kansas, profoundly affected Mary Ellen Sloan (JD ’75), who knew early...
Gov. Spencer Cox nominated an LDS Church attorney and a federal prosecutor to fill two new Utah Supreme Court seats.
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A Tennessee man is about to be $835,000 richer, thanks to a lawsuit settlement from the state that ruled he is not at fault for a meme he posted about Charlie Kirk’s killing. A University of …
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The long read: She was quick, polite, relentlessly positive, military-grade efficient. A trawl through the Epstein files raises the troubling question: what did Lesley Groff know?
