SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Latest on a lawsuit over an Ogden gang injunction (all times local):
4:50 p.m.
Utah prosecutors are asking a judge to toss out a lawsuit filed by two Ogden men who claim they were wrongly labeled as gang members under a sweeping injunction that barred alleged members from being seen together in public.
Attorneys for Weber County argued Wednesday the strict rules were a good-faith effort to combat gang crime. They say the injunction can’t be challenged in court because the rules are no longer on the books.
American Civil Liberties Union of Utah countered that the lawsuit is still relevant because authorities want to bring back the injunction. They’ve asked U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups to declare it unconstitutional.
Waddoups didn’t immediately rule in the case.
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Utah prosecutors want a judge to toss out a lawsuit from two Ogden men who say they were falsely labeled as gang members under a sweeping injunction that barred alleged members from being seen together in public.
Weber County attorneys are set to argue at a hearing Wednesday that the case should be dismissed because the injunction aimed at the Ogden Trece gang is now defunct. Prosecutors have said the strict rules helped reduce graffiti and gang crime.
But the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah says the county went too far with the injunction they call an overzealous use of government power.
The ACLU says the suit is still relevant because the county attorney has said he wants to bring back the injunction that was overturned on a technicality in 2013.
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