Snowboarders File Federal Lawsuit against Resort in Hopes It Will Allow Snowboarding

Wasatch Equality, a Utah nonprofit corporation, and four individual snowboarders have filed a federal lawsuit in the District of Utah against Alta Ski Area and the United States Forest Service, seeking to permanently enjoin Alta from enforcing its anti-snowboarder policy and snowboarding ban.   The plaintiffs also seek a declaration from the court that Alta's snowboarding prohibition, as enforced by the Forest Service, violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and