0:02 → 1:45(1m 43s)
Court opens the argument, Chief Justice Matthew Durant noted as recused (court announces Judge Bean of the Second District is sitting) and asks counsel to state appearances; Janet Conway appears for petitioners and Robert Mansfield and Megan Garrett appear for respondent Baugh.
The Utah Supreme Court heard oral argument in IRTA Community Association v. Baugh over whether petitioners may use Rule 65B to block Grantsville annexations and whether alternative remedies (appeal/remand to district court) are adequate. Petitioners say multiple annexations taken during changing annexation statutes illegally carved roughly one-third of ERDA’s land; respondents say petitioners used the wrong procedural vehicle and lack statutory standing. The court took the matter under advisement and recessed.
