Salt Lake Tribune reports on Utah's State attorneys defending LDS Church in alcohol lawsuit.
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- News (traditional)
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- The Salt Lake Tribune Non-LDS
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- Journalism
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Dawn House, "State Defends Mormon Church Influencing Utah Liquor Laws," The Salt Lake Tribune, January 22, 2012, accessed April 11, 2022
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- The Salt Lake Tribune
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- The Salt Lake Tribune, Judge Bruce Jenkins, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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- Reading Public
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State attorneys argue that the LDS Church has the right to offer its views on liquor laws to the Legislature, whose majority is made up of members of the church, which asks its adherents to eschew alcohol.
Utah also has the right to limit the number of restaurant and bar liquor licenses, and to outlaw discount happy-hour drinks, they contend in court filings defending comprehensive liquor regulations recently enacted by the Legislature.
State attorneys are asking U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins to throw out a lawsuit brought by the Utah Hospitality Association, a trade group of restaurant and bar owners, that challenges SB314.
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