1A Docket First Amendment · Utah

Third District, then Utah Supreme Court · 050900725 / 20060454

Deseret News Publishing Co. v. Salt Lake County

Requester won Judicial review

Forum
Third District, then Utah Supreme Court
Case number
050900725 / 20060454
Decided
Mar 28, 2008
Outcome
Requester won
Underlying case
Closed. Decided by the Utah Supreme Court on March 28 2008; reversed.

What the court held

  • The Deseret Morning News asked Salt Lake County for the investigative report on a sexual harassment complaint inside the county clerk’s office. The county withheld it and the district court agreed. The Supreme Court reversed, holding the county had not carried its burden of showing the report was properly classified as nonpublic, and observed that GRAMA does not contemplate adversarial combat over records requests but an impartial balancing of interests.

Docket · filings

1 filing
Mar 28, 2008Utah Supreme Court
The opinionSupreme Court opinion
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