Utah Supreme Court Overturns Gang Injunction
But for procedural reasons, not Constitutional problems
Members of an Odgen street gang will be allowed to freely gather in public once more, after the Utah Supreme Court overturned a controversial injunction that had barred them from hanging out together.
More than 300 members of the Trece gang had been prohibited from associating with each other within an area of Ogden designated as the "Safety Zone" for more than three years.
The state's high court voided the injunction on Friday, ruling that leaders or the "managing or general agent" of the gang were not properly served, and determined that "The district court therefore lacked jurisdiction to enter the injunction."
"Nobody and their dog could have argued that they didn't know the gang was being sued," Weber County Deputy Attorney Branden Miles told ABC affiliate KTVX-TV in Salt Lake City. "But the legal requirements for suing someone requires us to provide a certain kind of notice."
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