Appeals court rules for LDS Church on mans suit over sons' ordination

The Utah Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a father's lawsuit against the LDS Church, which ordained his two sons into its priesthood, apparently without his permission.

The ruling, however, allows Michael Gulbraa to pursue his claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress in his allegation that the church concealed information about the whereabouts of his sons after their noncustodial mother kidnapped them.

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Federal judge dismisses anti-Mormon group suit

A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by an anti-Mormon group that accused a pro-Mormon foundation of trademark infringement and unfair competition.

U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled that a Web site set up purportedly
for The Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR) was a parody and visitors could recognize immediately that it did not belong to Utah Lighthouse Ministry, a Salt Lake City-based organization that is critical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Utah Man In Custody Battle Suing LDS Church

An international custody battle years ago, now has a man suing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Mike Gulbraa says the church ordained his boys into the Aaronic Preisthood, even though church authorities had agreed they would not without his permission.

2News' Rod Decker is following this story.

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LDS student's suit hinges on meaning of a phrase

When a few classmates razzed Rebekah Rice about her Mormon upbringing with questions such as, "Do you have 10 moms?" she shot back: "That's so gay."

Those three words landed the high school freshman in the principal's office and resulted in a lawsuit that raises this question: When do playground insults used every day all over America cross the line into hate speech that must be stamped out?

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Feds drop LDS Church from blaze suit

The U.S. Attorney's Office has dropped the Mormon Church as a defendant in a civil suit against the Boy Scouts of America over a 2002 wildfire in the Uinta Mountains.

The attorney's office sued the Boy Scouts and its Great Salt Lake Council in 2004 to recoup money spent fighting the fire, which began near the East Fork of the Bear River Scout Reservation and blackened nearly 14,000 acres. The government seeks to recover $14 million.

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