Crandall Canyon Mine Mediation: Confidential!

All 43 attorneys, multiple insurance adjustors and Mediator Paul Felt got it right. Mediation is confidential in Utah in high profile cases! See article. Despite the considerable public interest in the Crandall Canyon mine case, the press, the parties, the attorneys and the mediator maintained the confidentiality of the mediation process.

Mediation Gone Wild: Utah Polygamy Creates Mediation Confidentiality Exception?

You may know the story of the mediation in Florida in which Joe Francis, creator of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos, made obscene proposals during a mediation (see article). Now, Utah has its own version involving Utah's unique history regarding polygamy. Does having multiple wives and owning property create a situation in which the State of Utah can seize property? If that issue is involved in mediation, is the mediation process confidential due to the First Amendment, public interest or the Government Access to Records Act (GRAMMA)? See article.

Does Polygamy Create an Exception to Mediation Confidentiality?

In the latest twist of "Mediation Gone Wild: Utah Polygamy Creates an Exception", mediation is again proposed. Can this one please be confidential? In this article, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS church), whose marriage to a 19 year old was arranged when she was 14, has proposed she be awarded land held in a controversial trust in settlement of her lawsuit. In an earlier incident (see article), others freely discussed a mediation involving the same trust lands the State seized from the FLDS Church. So, isn't mediation confidential under Utah law or does the public interest in polygamy or the desire for publicity trump?