Utah Supreme Court (UT photo)
The FLDS Church waited more than three years to challenge the dealings of the United Effort Plan Trust.
The trust was established in 1942 and fashioned after the United Order, a 19th-century religious concept under which church members donate all their assets to a communal organization.
Utah took over financial oversight of the trust in 2005 amid allegations of mismanagement by the group's leader, Warren Jeffs.
When the sale of Berry Knoll Farm, a 438-acre stretch of land set aside as a building site for a temple, was proposed in 2008, the FLDS filed a lawsuit to block the sale. Third District Judge Denise Lindberg authorized the sale of that land in August 2009, a decision that the church asked the Supreme Court to reverse.
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