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Article: Leader Jeffs is ruled in default in fed civil suit

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The leader of a polygamous southern Utah church has been ruled in default in a federal civil lawsuit claiming he blacklisted a former member.

The clerk of U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City on Friday entered a certificate of default against Warren Jeffs, president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The ruling means Jeffs has given up the right to defend himself and could be held liable for damages.

Shem Fischer, a former worker of a Hildale business who claims he was wrongfully terminated because he no longer adhered to the town's dominate FLDS faith, filed the federal lawsuit in 2002.

When Fischer's attorneys were unable to locate Jeffs to serve him with ...

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