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Input: FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2013, file photo, Jonathan Turley, attorney for Kody Brown and his four wives, the stars of the reality show "Sister Wives," leaves the Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse,... (Associated Press) 
  
 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld Utah's ban on polygamy, dealing a legal blow to TV's "Sister Wives" in a ruling that sides with prosecutors who said they need the ban to go after polygamists like imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs. 
  
 While some said Monday's decision could help in the prosecution of crimes like underage marriage and sexual assault, others worried it could send otherwise law-abiding plural families back into hiding and make such investigations harder. 
  
 The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a 2013 ruling that struck down key parts of Utah's law against bigamy, or holding multiple marriage licenses. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups had found the state violated polygamists' right to privacy and religious freedom. 
  
 The three-judge panel ruled that Waddoups should not have considered a lawsuit from Kody Brown and his four wives because they were never charged with a crime and there was little chance they would be. 
  
 The decision brings back a rule forbidding married people from living with a second purported "spouse," making Utah's law stricter than those in every other state and creating a threat of arrest for plural families. Like most polygamous families in Utah, Brown is legally married to one wife and "spiritually married" to the others. 
  
 State authorities have long said they don't go after polygamists who otherwise follow the law, and they reiterated that stance after the ruling. Officials wanted the clause kept on the books to help in criminal cases related to polygamy. 
  
 "We want them to come out of any shadows to report crimes," Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said. 
  
 Prosecutors pointed to Jeffs, the polygamous sect leader convicted of assaulting girls he considered wives. Authorities have recently cracked down on his sect on the Utah-Arizona border, charging leaders in a multimillion-dollar food stamp fraud scheme. A jury in Phoenix also found the towns denied nonbelievers basic services such as police protection. 
  
 The Browns have never belonged to Jeffs' group, and lumping in good, honest polygamist families with him isn't fair, said Brady Williams, who has five wives. 
  
 "We're only guilty of trying to love a different way than the norm," he said. "They are marginalizing a minority class in the United States. That's unconstitutional." 
  
 The Browns will appeal the ruling, either asking the 10th Circuit to reconsider or taking the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, said their lawyer, Jonathan Turley. 
  
 "The underlying rights of religious freedom and free speech are certainly too great to abandon," Turley said in a statement. 
  
 The family has said other laws exist to target crimes linked to plural marriages and that banning the practice can sow distrust of authority. They argue their show is evidence that polygamous marriages can be just as healthy and monogamous ones. 
  
 Kristyn Decker, a former polygamous wife, disagrees. She says that people don't report problems amid pressure to avoid casting the practice in a bad light. 
  
 "We have all been told over and over again, 'We need to protect the principle of plural marriage at any cost,'" said Decker, who argued that the ban lets authorities get a foot in the door. 
  
 The state said the appeals court made the right call. 
  
 "I don't think the Browns had a legitimate fear of prosecution," said Parker Douglas, who argued the state's case. 
  
 There are about 30,000 polygamists in Utah, according to court documents. They believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven — a legacy of the early Mormon church. The mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abandoned the practice in 1890 and strictly prohibits it today. 
  
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 Associated Press writer Hallie Golden contributed to this story. ||||| SALT LAKE CITY — A federal appeals court Monday overturned a judge's decision striking down the cohabitation provision in Utah's polygamy law. 
  
 The Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the lawsuit Kody Brown and his four wives filed is moot because there is no credible threat that they would be prosecuted under the law. The Browns are featured in the TLC reality show "Sister Wives." 
  
 A three-judge panel ordered U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups in Salt Lake City to vacate his decision and dismiss the lawsuit. 
  
 "The Brown family is obviously disappointed in the ruling but remains committed to this fight for the protections of religion, speech and privacy in Utah," the Browns' lawyer, Jonathan Turley, posted on his blog. They intend to appeal. 
  
 Waddoups deemed Utah's ban on polygamous cohabitation violated the Browns' religious freedom rights in December 2013. Bigamy — obtaining multiple marriage licenses — remains a felony in Utah. 
  
 Utah appealed the ruling, arguing that the U.S. Constitution does not recognize the practice of polygamy as a fundamental right, and the state's law protects women and children from abuse. 
  
 The Browns sued Utah over its polygamy laws in 2011 and fled their home in Lehi for Las Vegas after Utah County Attorney Jeff Buhman threatened to prosecute them. In most polygamous families, the man is legally married to one woman and "spiritually married" to the others. 
  
 In May 2012, Buhman announced a policy that his office would only prosecute polygamists who induce a partner to marry through misrepresentation or are suspected of committing crimes such as fraud or abuse. 
  
 "Nothing in the record suggests the Browns fit, or in the future may fit, into either category," according to the ruling drafted by Judge Scott Matheson Jr., a former University of Utah law professor. 
  
 The Utah Attorney General's Office, which represented Buhman in the appeal, applauded the 10th Circuit decision, noting Utah County has a similar policy to the state for prosecuting polygamists 
  
 "We want them to come out of any shadows to report crimes, avoid abuse and continue to live peaceful and productive lives," Attorney General Sean Reyes said in a statement. "We have worked with them in the past to those ends. And we have not used our scarce resources to prosecute them unless there is evidence of violence, fraud or corruption." 
  
 The appellate judges didn't consider the Browns' religious freedom arguments and wrote that Waddoups shouldn't have either because the family didn't have legal standing to sue and the case was moot after the policy change. 
  
 Turley said the ruling departs from previous court decisions on standing and mootness. 
  
 Twitter: dennisromboy ||||| Formerly of Lehi, the family, which practices polygamy for religious reasons, moved to Nevada to avoid prosecution after being investigated by the Utah County attorney's office and police. 
  
 Under Utah law, people are guilty of third-degree-felony bigamy if they hold multiple marriage licenses or if, when already married, they cohabit with another consenting adult in a marriagelike relationship. 
  
 In a landmark 2013 decision, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups struck down the cohabitation section of the law, saying it forced the Browns to leave Utah and violated their rights to privacy and religious freedom. 
  
 Such constitutional questions, however, were not considered by the Denver appeals court — nor should they have been by Waddoups — wrote a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. 
  
 Instead, the judges said, the Browns' lawsuit should have been tossed out in 2012 after Utah County prosecutors office announced that it had adopted a policy only to target polygamists for bigamy when there is also evidence of other collateral crimes, such as fraud or abuse. 
  
 "The declaration rendered the threat of prosecution so speculative that a live controversy no longer existed," according to the appeals court ruling. 
  
 Therefore, the ruling states, the Browns had no right to sue. 
  
 The decision sends the case back to Utah and orders Waddoups to vacate his 2013 ruling and dismiss the lawsuit. 
  
 Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said in a written statement that he was pleased with the ruling. 
  
 "Similar to our own office policy, Utah County only prosecutes bigamy crimes against those who induce marriage under false pretenses or if there is a collateral malfeasance, such as fraud, domestic abuse, child abuse, sex abuse or other abuse," Reyes said. "As a result of this policy, the 10th Circuit found that there is no harm to the Browns." 
  
 Reyes added that he understands "the desire to decriminalize cohabitation by those otherwise law-abiding citizens living in such households." 
  
 "We want them to come out of any shadows to report crimes, avoid abuse and continue to live peaceful and productive lives," Reyes said. "We have worked with them in the past to those ends. And we have not used our scarce resources to prosecute them unless there is evidence of violence, fraud or corruption." 
  
 The Browns are disappointed by the ruling and plan to appeal, either through a petition for a review by the full panel of judges on the Denver court or by filing directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, the family's Washington, D.C.-based attorney Jonathan Turley said. 
  
 "The underlying rights of religious freedom and free speech are too great to abandon," Turley said in a statement posted on his blog. "Utah is a state founded by courageous citizens seeking these very protections from government abuse and religious inequality. … The decision today only deepens [the Brown family's] resolve to fight for those same rights." 
  
 An estimated 38,000 polygamists live across the Intermountain West, according to Utah polygamy advocates. Plural marriage was an early tenet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The mainstream church officially abandoned polygamy in the 1890s as a condition of Utah statehood. 
  
 jdobner@sltrib.com |||||
Output:
A federal appeals court has ruled against four women and their husband in a move that means Utah once again has the toughest anti-polygamy law in the nation. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2013 ruling that effectively decriminalized polygamy by removing penalties for married people cohabiting with other adults who are treated as spouses, the Deseret News reports. The ruling came as part of a lawsuit brought by Sister Wives reality show star Kody Brown and his polygamous family, who moved from Utah to Nevada to avoid possible prosecution. The court didn't address the constitutional issues the Brown lawsuit raised, but instead declared that the original lawsuit should have been tossed out years ago, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. The court decided, confusingly, that since the Browns and similar families were highly unlikely to be penalized, the penalties should stay in place, the AP reports. Utah declared years ago that polygamous families would not be prosecuted in the absence of crimes like coercion or fraud, but officials want to keep the law on the books to help prosecute people like Warren Jeffs. With families that are otherwise law-abiding, "we want them to come out of any shadows to report crimes, avoid abuse, and continue to live peaceful and productive lives," Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes says. "We have worked with them in the past to those ends. And we have not used our scarce resources to prosecute them unless there is evidence of violence, fraud, or corruption." The Browns plan to appeal the ruling.