Salt Lake Tribune: Judge Won’t Dismiss Lawsuit Against Tribune-Deseret News Deal

Although we'd earlier predicted that this lawsuit "would be 'dumped' before the end of the month," we couldn't be more delighted to have been wrong about this

There's great news for Salt Lake Tribune readers this morning, with this encouraging Trib story, reporting that the plainiffs in the Federal court lawsuit seeking "to dismantle changes to a 62-year-old business partnership between The Tribune and the LDS Church-owned Deseret News" have survived their first legal hurdle, Here's Tony Semerad's tantalizing lede:

A federal lawsuit seeking to undo recent business dealings between Utah’s two largest newspapers will continue after a judge Monday rejected attempts to have it thrown out.
After nearly two hours of arguments from both sides, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups refused to dismiss the suit brought by a grass-roots group called Citizens for Two Voices.

And here's the full story, folks:

• Judge won’t dismiss lawsuit against Tribune-Deseret News deal

Although we'd earlier predicted that this lawsuit "would be 'dumped' before the end of the month," we couldn't be more delighted to have been proven wrong about this.

As this case now progresses toward a resolution "on the merits"  we'll of course keep you all posted as to significant case developments.

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