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State Tipoffs Involving Utah Newsletter for Sunday December 31, 2023 ( 8 items )  

USU Campus Rec to Celebrate 1st Week of Spring Semester 2023 With Free Events, Fitness Classes
LOGAN, Utah, Dec. 29 -- Utah State University issued the following news: Utah State University Campus Recreation will celebrate students' return for the spring semester with free events to give them a taste of snowshoeing, yoga, high fitness and more. The free events of Welcome Week will span Jan. 8-13. "Welcome Week is for students so that they can get to know what Campus Recreation has to offer," Coordinator of Fitness and Wellness Tayler Davis said. "We have fitness, climbing, basketball, a  more

Utah A.G. Reyes Challenges FDA Overreach and Unlawful Abortive Drug Access
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 29 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Dec. 28, 2023: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief, led by the State of Mississippi, to the Supreme Court of the United States in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v FDA. This case challenges a series of changes and approvals from the U.S. Food and Drug Association's (FDA) over the Mifepristone drug for abortions. Earlier this year, a pair of U.S. District Judges in competing fed  more

Utah A.G. Reyes Joins 26-State Coalition Urging Continuation of Dakota Access
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 28 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Dec. 26, 2023: Today, Utah Attorney General Reyes joined a 26-state coalition in an Iowa-led letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, urging the Corps to allow oil and gas to flow through the Dakota Access that has safely operated from North Dakota to Illinois for over six years. The letter also opposes the Corps's proposed alternatives--requiring shutting down, digging up, or building more than  more

Utah A.G. Reyes Joins Google Search Privacy Brief
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 30 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a bipartisan amicus brief, led by the State of Texas, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Calhoun v Google. The case involves a question of privacy rights over syncing Chrome and Google accounts. The plaintiffs in the case allege that Google has been collecting and profiting off their personal information collected from Chrome - even when they   more

Utah A.G. Reyes Leads Amicus Brief to Protect State Sovereignty Regarding Water Rights
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 28 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes led an amicus brief to the Supreme Court of the United States in Texas v. New Mexico. The case involves a proposed resolution of a dispute over water rights between several states, which the federal government is attempting to block. In 2014, Texas sued New Mexico and Colorado claiming that New Mexico had breached the 1939 Rio Grande Compact, which apportions water fro  more

Utah A.G. Reyes Supports State Rights to Govern Abortion Access
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 29 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined an amicus brief, led by the State of Indiana, to the Supreme Court of the United States in Idaho v. United States. The case involves an effort by the federal government to "prevent hospitals receiving Medicare funds in Idaho from complying with Idaho's abortion regulations." The federal government is attempting to use the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Ac  more

Utah A.G. Reyes Urges Congress to Empower States Against Illegal Immigration
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 30 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a letter, led by the State of Florida, to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives urging swift passage of H.R. 1337, the Immigration Enforcement Partnership Act of 2023. H.R. 1337 was introduced by U.S. Representative Bill Posey (FL-08) earlier this year. The legislation "authorizes an office of a state attorney general to request in writing that the De  more

Utah A.G. Reyes's Office Moves to Dismiss Great Salt Lake Water-Level Lawsuit
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 28 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Recently, the Utah Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Rights, and Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands joined together to file motions to dismiss litigation alleging the state is required to curtail vested water rights in the interest of maintaining a specific level in the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake is an important resource and critical component of the ecosystem in nor  more