Did the Hildale City Council vote to “triple” the town’s property tax, as reported by ABC 4 news? Or raise it 237 percent, as reported by Fox 13, adding $550 to the annual property tax bill on an average home? No and no. But that didn’t keep those media outlets or, for that matter, Val [...]
Kirk Torgensen, chief deputy in the Utah Attorney General’s Office, spoke Tuesday at the National Organization For Victim Assistance conference, being held in Salt Lake City. His topic? “Polygamy Victimization.” Former plural wife Carolyn Jessop also spoke. More on her in the next post. But here is a recap of what Torgensen had to say. [...]
The latest property dispute in the twin towns is over grain silos that the FLDS say are part of the Bishop’s storehouse and have never been part of the UEP Trust. UEP Trust fiduciary Bruce R. Wisan leased the silos to David Stubbs and Shane Stubbs, both ex-FLDS members. The FLDS went to court to [...]
Just in from The Associated Press Great Falls, Mont. — The body of a 21-year-old Utah man missing in the Missouri River near Great Falls since July 4 has been found. Cascade County sheriff’s officials say the body of Leroy Emack of Hildale, was recovered from an intake at Rainbow Dam on Monday morning. An employee [...]
I came across this today and thought I would share it, assuming many of you missed this speech by Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff’s speech. He gave it on Feb. 6, 2009, at the Non-State Governance Symposium at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law. It was published in the law school’s review journal. Here [...]
The 21-year-old Utah man missing and presumed drowned on the Missouri River in Great Falls, Montana, is Leroy Emack, the son of FLDS member Michael Emack who is currently serving a prison sentence in Texas. The Cascade County Sheriff’s Office has not released his name because his body has not been recovered, but FLDS spokesman [...]
The Texas Medical Board released its latest round-up of actions today. On it is this item about FLDS member Lloyd Hammon Barlow: On April 9, 2010, the Board and Lloyd Hammon Barlow, M.D., entered into an Agreed Order that requires Dr. Barlow to pass the Texas Medical Jurisprudence Examination within three attempts, within one year; [...]
If it seemed that the Utah Supreme Court justices were particularly attentive when Michael Zimmerman addressed the court on Feb. 17, there is a reason for it. Zimmerman used to be one of them. He stepped down from the bench in 2000, and resumed a law practice. Zimmerman represented attorney Rod Parker at the second [...]
I will continue to update this post with additional comments. More from Rod Parker, FLDS attorney: [On why the FLDS did not react sooner to the court takeover] Another reason was that they had a legitimate expectation that the court would respect their rights. The trust described certain rights they had, the Constitutition gives them [...]
On getting 3rd District Judge Denise Lindberg to accept a settlement . . . and Arizona If the fiduciary agrees to it I think that Lindberg will. We all believe that to be true. Arizona may disagree. They are doing their own thing now. I don’t think they would even agree to it. Arizona, I’ll [...]
