The Utah Supreme Court issued a major ruling on Tuesday allowing officials to subdivide property in a polygamous town on the Utah-Arizona border cities of Hildale and Colorado City. In the year 2005, the courts took control of the FLDS Church’s land-holdings arm, the United Effort Plan (UEP) Trust, amid allegations that polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and other sect leaders mismanaged it, leaving … [Read more...]
Lawmaker says polygamy laws scrapped for this year
A Utah lawmaker on Monday said that a proposal to strip away a key part of state’s polygamy laws was scrapped for this year. The decision was taken in the wake of a pending legal case. According to Rep. Jerry Anderson, R-Price, he is abandoning his bill that aims to make Utah laws comply with a federal judge's ruling that struck down a key part of the state polygamy statute. US District … [Read more...]
Advocacy Groups Praise Polygamy Ruling by Utah Judge
Groups advocating individual liberties and polygamy hailed a ruling by a federal judge on Saturday that key parts of the polygamy laws in Utah were unconstitutional, saying it is removing the arrest threat for those families. Judge Clark Waddoups from U.S. district court said in his Friday decision that a provision in the law in Utah forbidding the cohabitation with another person was in … [Read more...]
