Utah reports, 1851-[ongoing].

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Utah reports, 1851-[ongoing].

This series comprises the published editions of the decisions and opinions of the Utah Supreme Court. The decisions are maintained to document previous decisions and opinions of the Court and to allow for consistency and stability in the judiciary since past decisions of any appellate court may be used as precedent in another case. The decisions of the Court show the names of the parties, case number, date of decision, text of decision, and cross-references to other legal sources as appropriate. Some volumes (as labelled on the series inventory) contain the rules of practice or other rules of the Supreme Court.

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Petitioners Vaughn and Sharane Fischer, members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, filed a petition on 30 June 1987 to adopt the five children, ages 5-19, of Brenda and Joseph Thornton (both deceased at the time of this case, though Brenda has recently become the second wife of Vaughn Fischer). The appeal was contested by Pat and Janet Johanson, Brenda's half-sisters. From the description of Johanson vs. Fischer, Utah Supreme Court, 1988-1989. (Unknown...