Show A2 — The Herald Journal loigan Utah Tuesday March 19 2002 Q Utah JMjges hear DENVER (AP) —The 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Monday jn a dispute over the Mormon church’s efforts to restrict behavior in a Salt Lake City plaza The dispute arose after The Church of Saints imposed Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y rules restricting protests demonstrations and other activities on a stretch of Main Street’ in Salt Lake that it bought from the city The American Civil Liberties Union sued aiguing that the restrictions were unconstitutional because the city retains an easement across the block to ensure pedestrian access An easement allows a person to make limited use of another’s A plaza built on a section of Majn Street by the Mormon Church is seen from the 10th floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Oct 7 2000 in Salt Lake City The 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Monday in a dispute over the Mormon church's efforts to restrict behavior in the plaza In property The ACLU argued that the easement makes it unconstitutional for die city to tfoiTft in the same way actual persons can deal with property City Attorney Roger Cut- ler sud ‘Tlie easement specifically stat ed this was being closed as a public forum” The city sold the land to the church for $81 million and the chqrch promised to turn the asphalt and concrete between North Temple and South Temple into a pedestrian plaza City leaden also granted the church exclusive rights to distribute literature and broadcast speeches and music on the block The church said it could act as it wished on the land because its rights as the iproperty owner Humped die of the easement “Everyone is pro-hibited from handing leaflets except those who hold the greater property inter-- ” church attorney Vbn Keetch said ' i ut JMJH32IQJ runiog brief tar tfenMt dtteiM -- ConfidMMtnlin4MinOurLoMlOfflM 'Howto End MS ftofatama Foravari 800-375-97- 30 at- 877-451-91- 11 Anderson - wwwPiharriscom Saorf SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After the success of the 2002 Winter Games Utah residents say they would like to host the ft TAX VETERAN EX4RS AGENTS (ieedtowbrnr Summer Olympics? Utahns say in poll that they would like to host them '-- JK Harrb ft Company- - Logan Summer Olympics as well Sixty-si- x percent of Utah residents surveyed in a copyright Deseret NewsKSL-T- V poll by Dan Jones and Associates said ' Lake favored Sab City hosting a Summer Games Even they more residents 69 percent said they believed the city would be capable of hosting the Summer Olympics in 20 or 30 years A for the total of 404 Utah residents were questioned March 11-minus 5 a or has of error of which plus margin percent poll Despite Utah's support the Summer Games aren’t likely to come here “It certainly seems a bit of a long-sh- ot fantasy" said John MacAloon an Olympic historian and professor at the Uni- versity of Chicago “Salt Lake would be better advised to work on getting another Winter Games in that period” MacAloon said no city has ever hosted both Winter and Summer Gaines Fraser Bullock the chief operating officer of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee agreed it’s unrealistic to think that Utah could host this Summer Games which are much larger than the Winter Games “I think people are juSt basking in the glow of the Olympics” Bullock said “We just hosted tbe world here It’s a letdown I understand where the polling is coming from” Four US cities are already bidding to be the American candi- -' date for the 2012 Summer Gaines: Houston New York City ' Sim Francisco and Washington DC The final selection will be made in 2005 by the International Olympic Committee Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson’s spokesman Joshua Ewing said it may be better for Utah to quit while ftuaKead when it comes to the Olympics given the "enormTSTlargfc challenge” of the Summer Gaines "There's something to be said for sticking with what you’re good at” he said a i ows 13 case Sfareeti allow the church to decide what behavior is offensive “The city by retaining that interest also retains some responsibility” said ACLU lawyer Mark Lopez “If the church is the gatekeeper I think we have a very big problem’ The ACLU’s lawsuit was earlier dismissed in US District Court The list of rules was written by city and church attorneys and approved by the City Council in April 1999 It outlawed smoking sunbathing bicycling and “engaging in any illegal offensive indecent obscene vulgar lewd or disorderly speech dress or conduct” The city argued that it had cleared itself of any obligation because the restrictions were set out when it got the easemenL “Governments can deal with property one-blo- ck AP photo Msiiiini n w (475 Oflfeas Nrtonwkto) a time id save T jWir 9 'V yy mm' m &"& Ml Gfi rjqfqq V V ' ‘i ry Key’s Home Equity Line of Credit offers one of the lowest rates n years And because A - y judge stays Denver newspaper suit DENVER (AP) — A Denver District Court judge has delayed lawsuit by a family seeking to regain control of The Salt Lake Tribune until a similar case pending in Utah is complete Judge Robert McGahey Jr on Monday denied a request by MediaNews Group Inc the paper’s new owners Denver-base- d and rival paper Deseret News to dismiss the Denver suit In the federal case in Utah Tribune managers said their con-- f ipact gives them the option to buy Utah’s largest-circulatidaily in August MediaNews and the Deseret News oppose the managers’ buyout The Deseret News got involved because the two Salt Lake City dailies share printing advertising and circu- i on In the Denver suit the McCarthey family which owns a interest in the management group known as Salt I Tribune Publishing Co asked the court to affirm their right to MediaNews Group buy the paper from Denver-base- d Deseret News attorneys argued that die Denver filing is simply a reiteration of the federal case Further they claimed it relies on an as-yunresolved federal interpretation of the managers’ contract Jn addition the Deseret NeWs says the Denver court has no jurisdiction over the Utah paper con-traili- ng et it SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The dangerous avalanche condi-turthat led to two snowboarders’ deaths on Saturday will persist this week forecasters warned Allen Chatwin 18 of Henderson Nev and Richard Jones ' 19 of Holladay died while traversing the backcountry near Brighton ski area a dozen miles east of Salt Lake City They were among a dozen snowboarders who lefta chair lift at Brighton to ski outof bounds below Pioneer Peak The group triggered ah avalanche that broke six feet deep and 200 feet wide sliding 800 vertical feet dqwn a slope With another 2 inches of snow expected Monday in die Wasatch Mountains the avalanche danger remains high The hew snow is piling more weight atop a fragile icy layer that can break loose on steep slopes A weekend storm left northern Utah with up to a foot of snow and contributed to 180 highway accidents in Salt Lake and Utah counties No serious injuries were reported The new snow is accumulating on top of what fore-casters call “surface hoar” or feathery crystals a type of frost' that formed on snow surfaces during Friday’s sunny weather ’ “ We’re worried that new snow might have trouble bonding to earlier snow" avalanche forecaster Ethan Greene said Sunday ' He ranked avalanche danger high in the central Wasatch Mountains east of the Salt Lake City valley Avalanche danger elsewhere In Utah is considered moderate ns r v V or s ne h -' ’ J M M ' 3 V : a i ' 'A r i 'w 1 A' A-- m KeyBank Achieve anything ! 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