{"id":6194,"date":"2015-12-30T08:56:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T13:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2020-06-23T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:00:20","slug":"snowboarders-are-feeling-left-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/snowboarders-are-feeling-left-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarders Are Feeling Left Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8675\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/felipe-giacometti-sawa7hivsRs-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8675\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/felipe-giacometti-sawa7hivsRs-unsplash-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/felipe-giacometti-sawa7hivsRs-unsplash-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/felipe-giacometti-sawa7hivsRs-unsplash-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/felipe-giacometti-sawa7hivsRs-unsplash-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/felipe-giacometti-sawa7hivsRs-unsplash-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shredding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alta Ski Resort, in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, and the U.S. Forest Service are\u00a0being sued for discrimination against snowboarders. A group calling themselves\u00a0Wasatch Equality is carrying out the lawsuit and they say denying snowboarders\u00a0access to Alta Ski Resort is a violation of the 14th amendment. If Alta Resort operated\u00a0on privately owned land they would have the ability to deny access to\u00a0snowboarders. However this situation is very dicey because most ski resorts do not\u00a0own the mountains that the resorts are on, they rent\/manage the land for the State\u00a0Forestry Department.\u00a0Currently there are over one hundred other resorts in\u00a0America on U.S. Forest Service land that allow snowboarding, Alta is the only resort\u00a0leased from the Forestry Department that does not allow snowboards.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p><!--More read more-->Drew Hicken\u00a0a plaintiff against Alta feels \u201cUtah is a family state. All our families snowboard. We\u00a0would like to be able to go to the best resort in the world and share that experience.\u201d\u00a0Alta claims they are not discriminating against snowboarders the people rather the\u00a0equipment, the snowboard. Alta\u2019s representation is adamant in saying \u201cThis case is\u00a0about equipment. It\u2019s not about people. It\u2019s about a board.\u201d Others such as Judge\u00a0Gregory Philips who is residing over this case have prompted the key question of\u00a0where does the discrimination become necessary stating, \u201cWhat if I want to take my\u00a0toboggan down the slope? Would that be an equal protection violation?\u201d This\u00a0extremely controversial topic and it is very unclear where or how it will end. The\u00a0federal appeals court is currently hearing out this case and their verdict could set\u00a0major precedent for similar cases in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alta Ski Resort, in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, and the U.S. Forest Service are\u00a0being sued for discrimination against snowboarders. A group calling themselves\u00a0Wasatch Equality is carrying out the lawsuit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[548,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawsuits","category-settlements"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8676,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/8676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}