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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. United States Department of the Interior

2:25-cv-00657 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Aug. 7, 2025

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), a non-profit environmental membership organization dedicated to preserving wilderness and wild places in Utah, first filed suit in 2023, challenging the 2019 approval of the Sevier Playa Potash Project (S. Utah Wilderness All. v. U.S. Dep’t of the Interior, Case No. 2:23-cv-00492). The court dismissed that case without prejudice in 2024 after Peak Minerals, the company behind the potash mining plan, submitted an amended proposal to the Bureau of Lan…

Case Is Ongoing

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT
Dehart v. Stevens-Henager College

1:05-cv-00118 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Sept. 22, 2005

Closed Date: March 28, 2008

This is a case about gender-based employment discrimination. This case was brought on September 22, 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah by a former employee of Stevens-Henager College who alleged that she was paid a lower salary because of her gender, in violation of the Equal Pay Act ("EPA") and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin). In her complaint, the plaintiff also all…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah v. State of Utah

220903886 | Utah state trial court

Filed Date: June 25, 2022

This case concerns two Utah statutes banning abortions in nearly every circumstance, imposing criminal and licensing penalties on doctors, and requiring all abortions to be performed in hospitals and not licensed clinics. On June 25, 2022, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (“PPA”), represented by Planned Parenthood Federation of American and the ACLU, sued the State of Utah, the Attorney General of Utah, the Governor of Utah, and the Director of the Utah Division of Occupational and Profes…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States v. State of Utah

2:24-cv-00241 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: April 2, 2024

Closed Date: Jan. 29, 2025

This is a case about the rights of transgender incarcerated individuals. On April 2, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit against the state of Utah, the Utah Department of Corrections (UDOC), and the Utah Department of Health and Human Services in the United States District Court for the District of Utah. The DOJ alleged that the Defendants failed to timely and adequately provide treatment for a transgender inmate's diagnosed gender dysphoria, in violation of t…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

DISABILITY RIGHTS
DOJ Investigation of Utah Sheltered Workshops

No Court

This case entry summarizes a DOJ investigation into Utah’s services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.  In March 2021, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division opened an investigation into the State of Utah’s employment and day services for youth and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The DOJ assessed if the State of Utah’s employment and day services for youth and adults with I/DD were in violation of Title II of the Americans …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Grayeyes v. Cox

4:18-cv-00041 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 20, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 7, 2018

This case involved allegations that Defendants in their capacity as state officials had wrongfully denied Plaintiff access to the ballot as a candidate in a county election. Plaintiff sought an injunction to be included on the ballot for County Commissioner. Plaintiff was a member of Navajo Nation in San Juan County, Utah where he lived and operated a business. Plaintiff was a registered voter and voted in San Juan County elections for at least 18 years. Defendants claimed that Plaintiff was no…
PRISON CONDITIONS
DOJ Investigation of Utah Department of Corrections

No Court

On March 12, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had completed an investigation of the Utah Department of Corrections (UDOC) and found that UDOC had violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by discriminating against an incarcerated transgender woman on the basis of her disability, gender dysphoria. The DOJ opened its investigation into UDOC in response to a complaint from an incarcerated transgender woman (“the complainant”). The complaina…
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (OTHER)
Hansen v. Utah Board of Pardons and Parole

2:24-cv-00203 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: Feb. 23, 2024

This class action lawsuit challenges the Utah Board of Pardons' parole procedures. On February 23, 2024, a parolee filed suit in the Third Judicial District Court for Salt Lake County, Utah against the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, the individual members of the Board, and the State of Utah. 2024 WL 752313. Represented by private counsel, plaintiff brought a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Utah State Constitution for violations of the federal and state due process and ex post facto clau…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
United Utah Party v. Cox

2:17-cv-00655 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 21, 2017

Closed Date: Nov. 2, 2017

On May 19, 2017 the Lieutenant Governor of Utah issued an Order setting forth a special election to be held November 7, 2017 for a recent vacancy of the Third Congressional District of Utah. The terms of the special election process (including registration deadlines) made it impossible for the United Utah Party (an unincorporated political association of Utah citizens) to register a candidate.   On June 21, 2017, the United Utah Party filed an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking declaratory a…
EDUCATION
Gordon v. Jordan School District

2:17-cv-00677 | U.S. District Court for the District of Utah

Filed Date: June 23, 2017

On June 23, 2017, six parents of schoolchildren who attend schools within the Jordan, Granite, and Canyons School Districts in Utah filed this class action lawsuit against their respective school districts, those districts’ superintendents, and the Utah High School Activities Association (UHSAA) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. The lead plaintiff helped start a recreational-girls only tackle football league, which had approximately 200 participants in spring 2017. Plaintiffs…