(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) In this March 20, 2020, file photo, Sen. Kirk Cullimore speaks at a Capitol news conference about the state response to the outbreak of the coronavirus. The law firm in which Cullimore is a partner is Utah's leader in evictions and debt collections. In some cases it has employed an usual maneuver to seize someone's legal claim, auction it off, purchase it and dismiss it. A federal judge criticized the move as "questionable at best, unconscionable at worst."
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