Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on today's preliminary injunction blocking new state cabin-site leases from taking effect at the end of this month. Attorney General Lawrence Wasden sought the injunction, arguing that the state's whole system for renting out cabin sites…
The attorney representing the state Land Board today was none other than Merlyn Clark, the attorney who's been recently in the news as the state's hearing officer on the Highway 12 megaloads case, a decision that's now pending in his hands. Clark argued in court…
Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa, who sat through the court hearing today in which fellow Land Board member Lawrence Wasden won a preliminary injunction halting the signing of new cabin-site leases, emerged from the hearing frustrated. Ysursa chaired a Land Board subcommittee that's been…
After a judge's ruling today to grant the preliminary injunction he sought against the state Department of Lands, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said, "We welcome the court's decision. I certainly look forward to working with my colleagues on the Land Board to try and resolve…
Deputy Attorney General Clay Smith said in court today that the case involves "an exceedingly unusual situation," and 4th District Judge Deborah Bail agreed. Attorney General Lawrence Wasden went to court to block a decision made by the state Land Board, on which he serves;…
Attorney General Lawrence Wasden argued that the entire state law on which Idaho has based its cabin-site rents for state endowment lands - a 1990 state law that requires the state Land Board to charge "market rents," while eliminating the requirement that cabin-site leases be…
Fourth District Judge Deborah Bail, ruling from the bench, today granted a preliminary injunction barring the state Department of Lands from entering into proposed new leases with hundreds of cabin owners on state-owned cabin sites on Priest and Payette lakes, in response to a constitutional…
It turns out that eating a particular yogurt a day for two weeks won't solve intestinal problems after all, and drinking a particular dairy drink won't give you immunity from colds or the flu. Now The Dannon Company Inc. will pay Idaho $425,000 as part…
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