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State Of Utah Sues Mormon Church For $13.9 Million...

State Of Utah Sues Mormon Church For $13.9 Million...
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The Justice Department and the State of Utah have added the Mormon Church as a defendant in a $13.9 million lawsuit seeking to recover the costs of fighting a forest fire that began at a Boy Scout camp.

The government claims that boys from the Boy Scout troop, which is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, carelessly started the fire, which burned 14,000 acres of federal and state land in the Uinta Mountains in June 2002.

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