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DISC-0059 / ITEM-0030

Church Handbook of Instructions, Book 1 (Stake Presidencies and Bishoprics)

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints · United States / worldwide

Disclosure date
1999
Date precision
Year
Disclosure method
Court record
Extent
Reference
Record review
Reviewed

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Restricted material and access

The leaders' manual of church administration, including procedures for church discipline, issued to local leaders and not sold or published.

Material type
Internal governance
Restricted to
Stake presidencies and bishoprics
Restriction mechanism
copyright_claim
Stated reason
Prepared only for use within the church by its local leaders
Tradition origins
1830

Recorded practice status

Modified

Status as of
2020-02-19
Status claims
CLM-0077

Disclosure dates, source publication dates, tradition origins and dates of practice are separate.

What this disclosure covers

Records that substantial portions were posted online by the defendants and mirrored on three other sites; does not reproduce the text

The source

Intellectual Reserve, Inc. v. Utah Lighthouse Ministry, Inc., 75 F. Supp. 2d 1290 (D. Utah 1999): order granting preliminary injunction ↗ (SRC-0061; authenticity: Probable)

Author
US District Court for the District of Utah (Tena Campbell, J.)
Original publication
1999
Linked edition
Not recorded
Format
Court record
Provenance
court_filing
Rights of source work
Court record
Identifiers
Not recorded
Source content hash
Not recorded

Text read on the Berkman Klein Center course page on 2026-11-04; it matches the reported citation, docket 2:99-CV-808C and date of 6 December 1999 given in secondary accounts.

Defendants were Utah Lighthouse Ministry and its operators Jerald and Sandra Tanner. Replaced on 30 November 2000 by a permanent injunction based on a settlement.

Claims about this item

These claims may cite other sources for the same restricted item. Supporting and contradicting evidence remain separate.

CLM-0062 · Suppression

On 6 December 1999, at the suit of the church's intellectual-property corporation, a federal court in Utah ordered Utah Lighthouse Ministry to remove the Handbook from its website, not to reproduce or distribute it verbatim, and not to post the addresses of other sites it knew to hold the text.

Claim support
Single source
Record review
Reviewed
Period
1999–2000
Locators
SRC-0061: Order, paras 1–3; section III on contributory infringement
Sources counted as independent
Not recorded
Suppression mechanism
court_injunction

Supporting sources

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Single court record. The defendants did not oppose an injunction, only its scope. A settlement-based permanent injunction replaced it on 30 November 2000.

  • SRC-0061: Source authenticity is probable; this is separate from the truth of its assertions.
  • SRC-0061: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.

CLM-0077 · Change

On 19 February 2020 the church replaced Handbook 1 and Handbook 2 with a single General Handbook, published openly online and in the Gospel Library app, and declared the old handbooks obsolete.

Claim support
Single source
Record review
Reviewed
Period
2020
Locators
SRC-0073: opening paragraphs
Sources counted as independent
Not recorded

Supporting sources

Contradicting sources: none recorded.

Church-owned source reporting the church's own release. Whether the 2020 text keeps everything that Book 1 restricted has not been compared.

  • SRC-0073: No source-level content_hash is recorded; linked artifact hashes may identify excerpts, derivatives or metadata instead.

Evidence qualifications

Reviewed means checked against a source. It does not establish source authenticity, independent corroboration or present-day practice.

Item notes

Replaced in 2020 by an openly published General Handbook (CLM-0077).