Mayor addresses push poll and Alabama civil case involving his son, says he won a malpractice suit

Mayor Dave Young told interviewer Brad Daw that a push poll released during the campaign had tested a question referencing an Alabama lawsuit involving his son and that the poll did not list who paid for it, which Young called illegal under Utah disclosure rules.

Young summarized the underlying dispute as a private loan between his son and a neighbor in Alabama related to a separate home-flipping business. He said he did not know about the loan until the creditor sued. Young said the Alabama court trial lacked a transcript and that the judge assigned the loan's $140,000 principal to Young's company and to him personally while doubling damages in a way he characterized as improper. He described the proceeding as "kangaroo court" and said the absence of a transcript made appellate relief difficult.

Young said he later filed a malpractice suit against his Alabama attorney and won a confidential settlement. He acknowledged the matter is a campaign issue raised by his opponent but emphasized the case was unrelated to Orem governance.

Because the interview is the mayor's first-person account, the article attributes the chronology and legal characterizations to him and notes he described the malpractice suit's settlement as confidential.