Attorneys for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints filed a petition Wednesday seeking a rehearing before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over its August decision to resurrect a fraud lawsuit brought against the Utah-based global faith by James Huntsman over tithing.
[Read The Salt Lake Tribune story about the church’s latest filing.]
Below, read the 24-page petition as well as the three-judge panel’s original ruling Aug. 7 ruling reviving Huntsman’s multimillion-dollar case:
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