FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST v. HORNE

Nos. 11-4049, 11-4050, 11-4053, 11-4059, 11-4066, 11-4071, 11-4072, 11-4076.

698 F.3d 1295 (2012)

FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, an Association of Individuals, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas C. HORNE, Attorney General for the State of Arizona, Defendant-Appellant, and Bruce R. Wisan, Special Fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust; Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General for the State of Utah; Denise Posse Lindberg, Judge of the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Defendants, and Richard Jessop Ream; Thomas Samuel Steed; Don Ronald Fischer; Dean Joseph Barlow; Walter Scott Fischer; Richard Gilbert; Brent Jeffs, Intervenors. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an Association of Individuals, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General for the State of Utah, Defendant-Appellant, and Thomas C. Horne, Attorney General for the State of Arizona; Bruce R. Wisan, Special Fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust; Denise Posse Lindberg, Judge of the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Defendants, and Richard Jessop Ream; Thomas Samuel Steed; Don Ronald Fischer; Dean Joseph Barlow; Walter Scott Fischer; Richard Gilbert; Brent Jeffs, Defendants-Intervenors. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an Association of Individuals, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bruce R. Wisan, Special Fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust, Defendant-Appellant, and Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General for the State of Utah; Thomas C. Horne, Attorney General for the State of Arizona; Denise Posse Lindberg, Judge of the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Defendants, and Richard Jessop Ream; Thomas Samuel Steed; Don Ronald Fischer; Dean Joseph Barlow; Walter Scott Fischer; Richard Gilbert; Brent Jeffs, Defendants-Intervenors. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an Association of Individuals, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bruce R. Wisan, Special Fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust; Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General for the State of Utah; Thomas C. Horne, Attorney General for the State of Arizona; Denise Posse Lindberg, Judge of the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Defendants, and Richard Jessop Ream; Thomas Samuel Steed; Don Ronald Fischer; Dean Joseph Barlow; Walter Scott Fischer; Richard Gilbert; Brent Jeffs, Intervenors-Appellants. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an Association of Individuals, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Denise Posse Lindberg, Judge of the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Defendant-Appellant, and Bruce R. Wisan, Special Fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust; Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General for the State of Utah; Thomas C. Horne, Attorney General for the State of Arizona, Defendants, and Richard Jessop Ream; Thomas Samuel Steed; Don Ronald Fischer; Dean Joseph Barlow; Walter Scott Fischer; Richard Gilbert; Brent Jeffs, Intervenors, and Jonathan Harker; Hyrum Harker; Harker Dairy Farm, Movants. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an Association of Individuals, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas C. Horne, Attorney General for the State of Arizona, Defendant-Appellant, and Bruce R. Wisan, Special Fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust; Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General for the State of Utah; Denise Posse Lindberg, Judge of the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Defendants, and Richard Jessop Ream; Thomas Samuel Steed, Don Ronald Fischer; Dean Joseph Barlow; Walter Scott Fischer; Richard Gilbert; Brent Jeffs, Intervenors, and Harker Dairy Farm; Jonathan Harker, Movants. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an Association of Individuals, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bruce R. Wisan, Special Fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust; Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General for the State of Utah; Thomas C. Horne; Attorney General for the State of Arizona; Denise Posse Lindberg, Judge of the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Defendants, and Richard Jessop Ream; Thomas Samuel Steed; Don Ronald Fischer; Dean Joseph Barlow; Walter Scott Fischer; Richard Gilbert; Brent Jeffs, Intervenors-Appellants. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an Association of Individuals, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bruce R. Wisan, Special Fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust, Defendant-Appellant, and Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General for the State of Utah; Thomas C. Horne, Attorney General for the State of Arizona; Denise Posse Lindberg, Judge of the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Defendants, and Richard Jessop Ream; Thomas Samuel Steed; Don Ronald Fischer; Dean Joseph Barlow; Walter Scott Fischer; Richard Gilbert; Brent Jeffs, Defendants-Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

November 5, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Hinson , Assistant Attorney General, Tucson, AZ; Mark P. Bookholder , Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, AZ, for Defendant-Appellant Thomas C. Horne, Arizona Attorney General.

Peggy E. Stone , Assistant Utah Attorney General, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellant Mark Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General.

C. Frederick Beckner III , Kathleen M. Mueller , Amy M. Markopoulos , and Adam Doverspike of Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, D.C.; Brent M. Johnson , Administrative Office of the Courts, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellant Denise Posse Lindberg.

Jeffrey L. Shields , Mark Callister , Zachary Shields , and Michael D. Stanger of Callister Nebeker & McCullough, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellant Bruce R. Wisan, Special Fiduciary.

Roger H. Hoole and Gregory N. Hoole , of Hoole & King, L.C., Salt Lake City, UT, for Intervenors-Appellants Richard Jessop Ream, Thomas Samuel Steed, Don Ronald Fischer, Dean Joseph Barlow, Walter Scott Fischer, Richard Gilbert and Brent Jeffs.

Rodney R. Parker , Richard A. Van Wagoner and Frederick Mark Gedicks of Snow, Christensen & Martineau, Kenneth A. Okazaki and Stephen C. Clark of Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellee The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Before BRISCOE, Chief Judge, BALDOCK and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.


BRISCOE, Chief Judge.

The defendants have filed interlocutory appeals from an order of the district court granting a preliminary injunction in favor of plaintiff, an association of individual members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and beneficiaries of a charitable religious trust ("FLDS Association"). After granting the defendants' motion for an emergency stay pending resolution of these appeals, we certified a question to the Utah...

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