Legal Opinion
Ward v. State of Utah
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 10, 2003No. 02-4036PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
Eric Ward, a self-described animal-rights activist, was charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, after participating in an animal-rights demonstration in Magna, Utah in November 1999. The charge was contemporaneously elevated to a felony under Utah’s hate-crimes statute. Both the felony enhancement and the underlying disorderly-conduct charge were dismissed a few weeks later. Ward then brought the instant suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the hate-crimes statute violates the First Amendment and seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. Concluding that…
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3Cited by126 opinions
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