United States Tenth Circuit

In an Equal Protection challenge to a Utah statute that allowed cities, through an election open only to residents in the proposed new district, to detach from an existing school district, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where the electoral scheme furthered, among other things, the state's interests in promoting local control of public school districts by extending the franchise only to those voters who would reside in the new district.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/07/2010
• Published 01/07/2010

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, MURPHY, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Blake T. Ostler, Mackey Price Thompson & Ostler, Salt Lake City, UT, (with Jeffrey R. Olsen, Mackey Price Thompson & Ostler, Salt Lake City, UT, on the Reply Brief, and Catherine L. Brabson and John N. Brems, Parsons Kinghorn Harris, Salt Lake City, UT, on the Opening Brief), for Appellants/Cross-Appellees., Jeffrey L. Shields, Callister Nebeker & McCullough, Salt Lake City, UT, for Intervenors-Defendants/Appellees, and Brent A. Burnett, Assistant Utah Attorney General, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellee and Cross-Appellant Greg Bell (with Thom D. Roberts, Assistant Utah Attorney General; and Mark L. Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant Bell, T.J. Tsakalos and David H.T. Wayment, Deputy District Attorneys, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellee Swensen, and Zachary T. Shields and Michael D. Stanger, Callister Nebeker & McCullough, Salt Lake City, UT, for Intervenors-Defendants/Appellees) for Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants, and Intervenors-Defendants/Appellees.