The Weber County attorney had accused a federal judge of calling him a liar, and asked that the judge be removed from handling a lawsuit over a now-defunct gang injunction.
That won’t happen, as another federal judge issued a ruling this week that will keep Clark Waddoups on the case.
Weber County Attorney Christopher Allred had asked that Waddoups, a U.S. district court judge, be sidelined, arguing in court papers that one of his recent ruling was a personal attack and showed a bias against him.
Waddoups was critical of Allred and the previous county attorney, Dee Smith, in an October order where he ruled the county violated the rights of two Ogden men who had been targeted by a controversial injunction that forbid Ogden Trece gang members from associating with each other in public.