February 21, 2018
The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission and a Utah county told a federal judge Tuesday that they had reached a settlement to resolve the group's suit alleging the county wasn't providing equal voting opportunities to Navajo citizens, including opening more polling stations on or near the Navajo reservation.
September 08, 2017
A Utah federal judge on Thursday denied partial summary judgment bids all around in the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission's suit seeking to hold San Juan County liable for allegedly not providing equal voting opportunities to Navajo citizens, saying a full trial is the better course of action.
April 11, 2017
The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission told a Utah federal judge that Utah's San Juan County can't dodge its bid to find the county liable for failing to provide equal opportunities to vote to Navajo citizens, saying that a 2016 plan by the county didn't provide equally accessible polling places to Navajo voters seeking to vote in person.
March 30, 2017
A Utah magistrate judge declined Wednesday to force San Juan County to give the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission documents in a tribal lawsuit challenging the county's voting system, saying the material sought was "not within a reasonable reading" of the commission's initial request.
March 27, 2017
A Utah county urged a federal judge on Friday to reject the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission's bid to find the county liable for failing to provide equal opportunities to vote to Navajo citizens, saying that the group hadn't shown the county's voting process depressed Navajo voting.
February 27, 2017
The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission pressed a Utah federal court Friday to find San Juan County liable for failing to provide equal opportunities to vote for all voters in its suit challenging the county's predominantly mail-in voting system as detrimental to Navajo citizens.
December 05, 2016
A San Juan County commissioner continued to urge a Utah federal court Friday to free her from part of a lawsuit in which the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission is challenging the county's predominantly mail-in voting system as detrimental to Navajo citizens.
November 14, 2016
The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission urged a Utah federal court Friday not to let a San Juan County commissioner escape part of a lawsuit challenging the county's predominantly mail-in voting system as detrimental to Navajo citizens.
October 17, 2016
A Utah federal judge dealt a blow Friday to the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission in its voting rights lawsuit against the state's San Juan County, shooting down an attempt to compel the county to change its voting procedures in advance of the November general election.