Former teen bride wins the right to sue polygamous sect

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Utah woman to seek millions in damages after she claimed that polygamous church leader, Warren Jeffs, forced her to marry her cousin when she was 14.

Elissa Wall can seek the payout from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, through its communal property trust, which is now controlled by the state.

Her testimony helped convict Jeffs, in 2007, of being an accomplice to her rape, though the verdict was later overturned on a technicality. Jeffs is serving a life prison sentence, in Texas, for sexually assaulting girls he considered wives.