Utah Supreme Court hands S.J. Quinney College of Law alums major victory in transgender rights case
Newswise In a landmark case argued by two S.J. Quinney College of Law alums, the Utah Supreme Court ruled on May 6, 2021, that transgender Utahns have a legal right to change the name and gender marker on their birth certificates and other state records.
Chris Wharton, J.D. 09, and Kyler O’Brien, J.D. 16, represented Angie Rice and Sean Childers-Gray in the case In Re Gray and Rice (20170046) 2021 UT 13 along with attorneys Troy Booher, Beth Kennedy, and Alexandra Mareschal. Beth Jennings, adjunct assistant professor and assistant librarian in the college’s James E. Faust Law Library, provided substantial research support.