UPDATE:: Hildale says it’s open to settling Justice Dept. lawsuit over FLDS control__
The attorney for Hildale told FOX 13 the city is open to settling a massive civil rights lawsuit leveled against it by the U.S. Justice Department.
In an interview Tuesday, Hildale attorney Blake Hamilton said the town governments remained open to a potential settlement to avoid going to trial in Phoenix next week.
"Hildale and Colorado City have always been open. I can tell you that we're willing to entertain and work toward a resolution," he told FOX 13.
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Jury selection is already under way in the discrimination trial the federal government has leveled against Hildale and Colorado City. It accuses the governments in the border towns of discriminating against people who aren't members of the Fundamentalist LDS Church, and acting under orders from imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.
"That's not really what this case is about," Hamilton said. "It's about two things: whether Hildale and Colorado City discriminate with their utility services and whether they discriminate with respect to policing."
The brother of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is fighting efforts to testify in an upcoming trial against Hildale and Colorado City.
In a motion filed Friday, Fundamentalist LDS Church Bishop Lyle Jeffs asked a federal judge in Phoenix to quash a testimony subpoena, accusing the U.S. Justice Department of doing it because he’s the brother of Warren Jeffs.
“It appears that Plaintiff wishes to stage a ‘dog and pony show’ in which a non-party witness, whose last name happens to be Jeffs, is paraded before the jury for the sole purpose of repeatedly invoking his right not to answer Plaintiff’s questions,” Jeffs’ attorney, Michael Piccarreta, wrote.
Warren Jeffs’ brother fighting subpoena to testify in Justice Dept. trial | fox13now.com
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