Four men opposed to the size of the Heber Valley Utah Temple are seeking an emergency court hearing to stop construction.

Workers began to grade the temple site on Monday for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a month after a judge dismissed the opponents’ lawsuit .

Bruce Van Dusen and three other men have filed an appeal of that ruling with the Utah Supreme Court, which has moved to transfer the appeal to the Utah State Court of Appeals.

The Wasatch County Council approved the temple project in November 2023.

Since then, the church has had the legal right to proceed with construction, but it instead waited voluntarily for last month’s ruling by Fourth District Judge Jennifer Mabey.

Mabey rejected every argument in the lawsuit except for the one the men made that th

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