Carrier v. Pro-Tech Restoration

ON CERTIORARI TO THE UTAH COURT OF APPEARS

ZIMMERMAN, Chief Justice:

Defendant Pro-Tech Restoration (“Pro-Tech”) seeks review of the court of appeals’ decision ordering a new trial because the trial court had incorrectly determined that Pro-Tech and defendant William Smith had sufficiently disparate interests to warrant separate allocations of peremptory challenges under rule 47 of the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure. See Carrier v. Pro-Tech Restoration, 909 P.2d 271 (Ct.App.1995); cert. granted, 920 P.2d 1194 (Utah 1996). Pro-Tech argues that the court of appeals applied the wrong standard of…