Polygamous Fundamentalist Mormon Towns Found Guilty of Denying Civil Rights of Nonbelievers

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A weeks-long trial in Phoenix ended on Monday with a jury awarding $2.2 million to six residents of two polygamous southwestern towns at the Utah-Arizona border, after the towns were found violating the civil rights of non-believers for more than two decades.
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The towns of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah, were accused of denying services to residents who were not part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a radical offshoot of Mormonism. Services denied to nonbelieving residents included police protection, building permits and water connections, according to the jury. Among the residents who sought damages are former members who had left the church.
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Six residents of the towns brought the case forward and will be awarded $2.2 million in damages, although the two towns will only pay $1.6 million as part of their settlement deal, as negotiations were made by lawyers prior to the settlement. A Phoenix jury of seven men and five women deliberated the case for four days at the end of a seven-week federal trial. The civil rights lawsuit was filed by the Department of Justice in 2012.
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newsweek.com/polygamous-mormon-towns-civil-rights-discrimination-434770
 
Seems a natural continuation of the issues the FLDS church ran into a few years ago where the entire Law Enforcement apparatus in the towns was found to be under the church’s control as well. Actually surprised it’s taken this long for the rest of the city services to be found suspect.
 
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