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Show UTAHi PRESS ASSN 467 E 300 S SIX, UT B4111 District Judge Rules Hatch Beer Ordinance Is . r xP HATCH In Sixth Judicial District Court for Garfield County on July 3, Judge Don V. Tibbs declared the controversial Hatch Town beer ordinance' null and void. Russell Mahan, representing Leland Riggs, plaintiff, stated that the recent action was a logical follow-up to previous court action which found that the Hatch Town Council had held a meeting in violation of Utah's Sunshine Act. The ordinance permitting the sale of te invalid, beer in Hatch had been passed at the &cim pace meeting in question and since the neilher Hatch Town Board members, meeting was decreed invalid any nor plaintiff or any Hatch residents in transactions at that meeting would also attendance. Upon learning of the court's decision terest. some residents commented that the Hatch Town Board should have made However, mayor Mervin Barnhurst public any court action which involved stated that to notify the public of the the controversial beer ordinance court case would not have been in the simply because of general public in- best interest of the town. |