Freedom of beekeeping not allowed in the Beehive State
We live in the Beehive State, yet beekeeping is illegal unless you first register with the government.
Utah Requires Licensure for Bedding and Upholstered Furniture
Why are bureaucrats being required to micromanage upholsterers and clothiers?
Utah should protect the right to work
Utah's Constitution needs to protect what judges no longer do—the right to pursue a peaceful occupation of one's choosing.
SCOTUS Hearing Cell Phone Surveillance Case
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case where the government accessed the past location information of a person without a warrant.
Why are CBD permit holders not renewing?
Dozens of families hoping to stop their child's seizures with CBD have decide not to continue participating in the program. But why?
Occupational Licensure: Public Safety, or Something More?
The state's interest in protecting public safety is too often used as justification for regulations that exceed that limited scope.
Illegal CBD Oil is Saturating Utah
Stores around the Beehive State are selling CBD oil, telling customers that the products are legal. They're not.
Hate civil asset forfeiture? Here’s a court case in Utah to follow…
The Utah Highway Patrol seized money from a person not suspected of a crime, and then gave it to the federal government—circumventing state law that prohibited them from doing so.
Utah Cities Flout State Law to Collect Money from Home-Based Business Owners
For four years, we worked with Representative-now-Senator Anderegg on legislation that would exempt home-based business owners from having to pay money to their city or county for legal permission to work in their own home....
Presumption of Innocence? Not for these poor Utahns…
Being presumed innocent sounds great in theory, but in practice, people are held in jail for weeks or months before trial if they're unable to pay the government money.