CITY OF SOUTH SALT LAKE v. SALT LAKE CTY.

Nos. 960325, 960330, 960391, 960392 and 960331.

925 P.2d 954 (1996)

CITY OF SOUTH SALT LAKE, Town of Alta, City of Draper, Midvale City, Murray City, City of Riverton, Sandy City, West Jordan City, Sharon Brinton, and Linda Norton, Petitioners, v. SALT LAKE COUNTY, Respondent. MIDVALE CITY, a municipal corporation, City of West Jordan, a municipal corporation, and Liane Stillman, Petitioners and Appellees, v. SALT LAKE COUNTY, a body politic, Sherrie Swensen, Salt Lake County Clerk, and Douglas R. Short, Salt Lake County Attorney, Respondents and Appellees. Sherrie SWENSEN, Salt Lake County Clerk, and Salt Lake County, a body politic, Petitioners, v. The Honorable J. Dennis FREDERICK of the Third District Court in his official capacity; City of West Jordan, a municipal corporation; Midvale City, a municipal corporation; and Liane Stillman, an individual, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Utah.

Rehearing Denied November 11, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin R. Watkins, South Salt Lake, and David L. Church, Salt Lake City, for South Salt Lake, City of Draper, Sandy City, City of Riverton, Murray City, Town of Alta, Sharon Brinton, and Linda Norton.

Douglas R. Short, Gavin J. Anderson, Kent S. Lewis, Dahnelle Burton-Lee, Patrick F. Holden, Salt Lake City, for Salt Lake County parties.

Jody K. Burnett, George A. Hunt, Salt Lake City, and Martin Pezely, Midvale, and Greg Curtis, West Jordan, for Midvale City and City of West Jordan.

Kent B. Linebaugh, Jeffrey Devashrayee, Salt Lake City, for Liane Stillman.

Earl D. Tanner, Sr., Earl D. Tanner, Jr., Anthony L. Rampton, Robert A. Garda, Jr., E. Craig Smay, Salt Lake City, for numerous intervenors.


ZIMMERMAN, Chief Justice:

These matters involve an appeal from a remand to the trial court of a question of statutory interpretation initially brought before this court by a combination of interlocutory appeals and extraordinary writs filed in early August of this year seeking review of a decision of the trial court staying township elections scheduled for August 6, 1996. Although the parties are varied,1 for purposes

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