{"id":14,"date":"2016-10-10T21:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2016-10-10T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T21:30:15","slug":"utah-stream-access-coalition-files-suit-challenging-public-waters-access-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Utah Stream Access Coalition Files Suit Challenging Public Waters Access Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On November 12, the Utah Stream Access Coalition filed suit in Wasatch County challenging the Public Water Access Act. \u00a0The Utah legislature passed this act in 2010. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The suit names Victory Ranch, Silver Creek-Robert Larsen Investors, Wasatch County Sheriff Todd Bonner, and the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources as defendants. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The case seeks the following relief: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Judgment declaring that Utah\u2019s public waters are owned by the people of Utah for their benefit; that the public has an easement, right-of-way and servitude to use Utah\u2019s public waters for recreation and other lawful purposes; and that private landowners may not prevent Coalition members or the public from accessing public waters;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0Judgment declaring that the Act is unconstitutional;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0An injunction barring defendants from preventing public access to public waters;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0An injunction barring the Division of Wildlife Resources and the County Sheriff from penalizing the public for accessing public waters. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 12, the Utah Stream Access Coalition filed suit in Wasatch County challenging the Public Water Access Act. \u00a0The Utah legislature passed this act in 2010. \u00a0 &nbsp; The suit names Victory Ranch, Silver Creek-Robert Larsen Investors, Wasatch County &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/?p=14\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Utah Stream Access Coalition Files Suit Challenging Public Waters Access Act<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.mwjlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}