Polygamist sect ruling
Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leave a courthouse in San Angelo, Texas, overjoyed by a ruling that the state had no cause to take their children. (L.M. Otero / Associated Press)
Members of the polygamist sect celebrate the ruling. “The way that the courts have ignored the legal rights of these mothers is ridiculous,” Julie Balovich, an attorney for a legal aid group, said in a statement. (L.M. Otero / Associated Press)