2025年1月15日 · Church lawyers have forcefully invoked the Constitution’s protections for religion, asking the court to label the lawsuit an unauthorized invasion into deep spiritual questions and a breach of ...

2025年1月31日 · Plaintiff James Huntsman sued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (“the Church”) in federal district court. Huntsman, a former member of the Church, alleged that the Church had committed fraud by using tithing funds to finance commercial endeavors despite stating that it had not and would not do so.

2025年1月19日 · SALT LAKE CITY — On Friday, Jan. 17, attorneys for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were in federal court seeking to strike a lawsuit challenging the organization’s use of tithing donations. The final verdict is pending.

2025年2月27日 · The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released a statement and republished a video with a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles following the recent unanimous ruling by the United States’ Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissing a lawsuit that challenged how Church funds and proceeds from investments were used for a Church project.

2024年9月22日 · Three former Latter-day Saints — Laura Gaddy, Lyle D. Small and Leanne R. Harris — sued the Utah-based church in 2019 in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, asserting the church...

2024年3月3日 · The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a ruling that reinstated James Huntsman's lawsuit seeking the return of $5 million he gave The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The church says sending his suit to a jury would endanger religious freedom by giving courts power over religious doctrine.

2025年2月8日 · In March of 2021, James Huntsman filed a lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Sometimes referred to as Mormon) alleging that that he paid tithing based on false statements given by then President Gordon B. Hinkley who said that tithing funds would not be used to build the City Creek Mall.

2025年2月27日 · January’s unanimous court ruling against James Huntsman’s tithing lawsuit was an acknowledgement of the integrity of the use of tithing donations by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the church said Thursday in a news release.. A panel of judges from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 11-0 in favor of the church on Jan. 31, finding that Huntsman’s claims that the ...

4 天之前 · In Huntsman v.Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Ninth Circuit sitting en banc affirmed a district court’s summary judgment in favor of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.A divided panel of the Ninth Circuit had affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded. However, the …

2025年1月20日 · The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defends against a lawsuit questioning their handling of tithing donations in federal court, with a focus on claims of fraud and financial ...