Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the News

[myboynoah]

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[Pelado]

BYU Law grad in the news... and it isn't great.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...arges-3274474/



Although, given his history, not sure if he's an active MOTCOJCOLDS:

What's his CougarBoard moniker?

[YOhio]

BYU Law grad in the news... and it isn't great.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...arges-3274474/


Although, given his history, not sure if he's an active MOTCOJCOLDS:

Looks like stealing necklaces from Sundance is a gateway into a life of lap dances, human trafficking and murder for hire.

[originalsocal]

BYU Law grad in the news... and it isn't great.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...arges-3274474/



Although, given his history, not sure if he's an active MOTCOJCOLDS:

Very similar to the plot of Better Call Saul.

[PaloAltoCougar]

BYU Law grad in the news... and it isn't great.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...arges-3274474/



Although, given his history, not sure if he's an active MOTCOJCOLDS:

I love the lead writer's name, Noble Brigham.

[LVAllen]

BYU Law grad in the news... and it isn't great.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...arges-3274474/

Prosecutors accused Gary Guymon, who attended law school at Brigham Young University and has been a member of the Nevada bar since 1989, of solicitation to commit murder, conspiracy to commit murder, sex trafficking of an adult, perjury, coercion with force or threat of force, three counts of bribing or intimidating a witness to influence testimony and three counts of pandering, court records show.

“Through the course of the investigation, detectives believe Guymon was using his position as a criminal defense attorney to victimize individuals of sex trafficking and prostitution,” the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.

Although, given his history, not sure if he's an active MOTCOJCOLDS:

Guymon previously said it was true he was a Cheetah’s regular and received lap dances, but denied Galardi paid for the lap dances or that he had sex at the club.

“For Michael Galardi to say he paid for sexual favors is scoffable,” Guymon said in a 2006 interview. “I went to (Cheetah’s) like any other citizen.”

[All-American]

9th Circuit en banc panel unanimously reverses decision in James Huntsman's favor and awards summary judgment to Church.

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datasto...1/21-56056.pdf

Majority opinion says, in short, that nothing the Church said was false. It didn't use principal funds-- only earnings from reserves-- just as President Hinckley said. And Huntsman should have realized that.

A concurring opinion puts it a little more forcefully than that:

This lawsuit is extraordinary and patently inappropriate, a not-so thinly concealed effort to challenge the Church’s belief system under the guise of litigation."

Also at issue is a question of whether the suit is barred under the First Amendment. The majority says no; the claim fails on its merits, not because the First Amendment has anything to say about it. The concurrence disagreed:

The majority is correct that there was no fraudulent misrepresentation even on the terms of plaintiff’s own allegations. But it would have done well for the en banc court to recognize the obvious: there is no way in which the plaintiff here could prevail without running headlong into basic First Amendment prohibitions on courts resolving ecclesiastical disputes....

Although plaintiff’s claims can be rejected even as he styles them, which is the approach the majority takes, we should not indulge in the illusion that this is merely a secular lawsuit about civil fraud. Under the First Amendment, the plaintiff’s challenge to the Church’s understanding of tithing is not susceptible to resolution in a court of law, lest the judiciary wrest control from religious authorities over matters of theological concern. It would have been straightforward and preferable for the court to recognize that plaintiff’s unprecedented theory encounters overwhelming First Amendment impediments. While every judge on this panel agrees that the plaintiff’s claims fail, I write separately to explain why a suit like this could never succeed under the First Amendment’s church autonomy doctrine.

In fact, another concurring opinion held that it was inappropriate to consider the merits without first considering the church autonomy doctrine, and that the court should have rejected the case on First Amendment grounds without considering the merits.

Also interesting: the Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is no more. In 2019, it, and the Corporation of the Presiding Bishopric, merged. The new entity is named, simply: "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."

[BigPiney]

What better way to assure the decedent's loved ones that he has moved on to a better place.

[All-American]

I just wanted to make sure that AA saw that two of Mack's arrangements were sung at Jimmy Carter's funeral!

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What better way to assure the decedent's loved ones that he has moved on to a better place.

[Copelius]

I didn't hear the arrangement of My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, but they could have had the trifecta had they used Mack's for that one.

[Clark Addison]

I just wanted to make sure that AA saw that two of Mack's arrangements were sung at Jimmy Carter's funeral!

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[frank ryan]

Not sure if I have ever told the story of how he tried to cheat at the BYU pro day. He has always been a piece of work.

How did he try and cheat? I think he was an alphacon participant and all those guys are beyond reproach.

[Maximus]

Gg elder

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[Joe Public]

Not sure if I have ever told the story of how he tried to cheat at the BYU pro day. He has always been a piece of work.

How does one cheat at a pro day? Foam weights?

[BigPiney]

I read that this morning. Not the least bit surprised. Total slimeball.

Not sure if I have ever told the story of how he tried to cheat at the BYU pro day. He has always been a piece of work.