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Court Hands Defeat on Polygamy to Family from “Sister Wives”

posted on April 11, 2016

The Associated Press’ Lindsay Whitehurst reports, “A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed a landmark decision that decriminalized polygamy in Utah, marking a legal defeat for the family from the reality TV show ‘Sister Wives.'” She writes, “Kody Brown and his four wives cannot sue the state over its ban on plural marriages because the family never faced charges and prosecutors later said they would not prosecute consenting adults with multiple wives, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled.”

Read at Associated Press