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About John Mejía
John joined Christensen & Jensen in 2024 to continue his focus on litigating complex civil rights cases. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School with honors in 2003, he began his legal career as an associate in the insurance litigation group at Sidley Austin, LLP in Chicago. After working there for four years, he moved back to Utah, where he grew up. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Tena Campbell and the Honorable Judge Clark Waddoups in the U.S. District Court for Utah between 2008 and 2012.
He then became Legal Director of the ACLU of Utah, where, for over a decade, he worked on a wide variety of high impact civil rights cases. In that role, he helped clients from every background and every walk of life promote and defend their civil rights and individual liberties. His work on civil rights cases continues at Christensen & Jensen, but his efforts have also expanded to other areas, including bringing benefits claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. John’s work as an advocate and specialized knowledge has earned him numerous invitations to present to many audiences on various topics.
He has considerable media experience, including giving hundreds of interviews to local and national media outlets in English and Spanish. He has testified at the Utah State Legislature and local governments on a variety of issues impacting people’s civil rights. He has received recognitions from various organizations for his work at the ACLU of Utah, including from Utah Pride and the Navajo Nation Council. John habla español.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Christensen & Jensen, P.C.
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Lillian Birt was in the ICU with respiratory failure, septic shock and reduced heart function. Her children agreed to discontinue life support because they understood from her doctors that her condition was terminal and treatment was only prolonging her death. It was not terminal, and there was a high likelihood she would have recovered. She died about eight hours later.
Amy Herzog worked at Jupiter Bowl in Kimball Junction. During a Park City Mountain Resort employee party in April 2019, a resort employee performed a 360-degree spin and released his ball into her lane while she was freeing a stuck ball from the gutter, crushing her left hand. Three surgeries left her with a permanently deformed hand that cannot form a fist. A Summit County jury found Vail Resorts 80 percent at fault and its employee 20 percent, awarded $2,402,000, and found the employee was acting within the scope of his employment. The trial judge later vacated the employer-liability finding and cut the award by 20 percent, but the Utah Court of Appeals reversed that ruling in 2025 and reinstated the full judgment.
Morley Reed Sprague had advanced multiple sclerosis and lower-body paralysis and could not reposition himself. He entered Avalon Care Center with a small stage-one pressure ulcer on his right buttock. Within a month it had deteriorated to exposed bone and become infected. He never recovered and died 22 months later.
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