After an adverse decision from the Utah Court of Appeals, litigants frequently ask the same question in two different ways: “Can I ask the court to reconsider?” and “Can I take this to the Supreme Court?” These sound similar, but…
Every Utah certiorari practitioner needs to internalize one fact before anything else: the deadline is jurisdictional, the clerk will reject a late filing without exception, and there is no equivalent to the tolling motions that extend deadlines in trial court…
A petition for writ of certiorari to the Utah Supreme Court is one of the most demanding documents in Utah appellate practice — not because the legal analysis is necessarily more complex than a Court of Appeals brief, but because…
Most petitions for writ of certiorari in Utah are denied. That is not a flaw in the system — it is the system working as designed. The Utah Supreme Court has limited capacity, and URAP Rule 46 is explicit that…
You lost at the Utah Court of Appeals. The opinion came down, the panel affirmed the trial court — or reversed in a way that hurts you — and you believe the court got the law wrong. The instinct is…
Lotus Appellate Law handles appeals throughout Utah, serving clients in all counties and courts across the state including:
