A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed negligence by the Boy Scouts of America and the Mormon Church in the death of a motorcyclist who struck a tree cut down by Scouts in Southern Utah.
Family members of motorcyclist Edgar Riecke and the defendants stipulated to the dismissal, which indicates they had reached a settlement. U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish granted their motion to dismiss on Wednesday.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which chartered the Fruit Heights troop involved in the tree-cutting, had no comment on the case.
Allen Endicott, an executive with the Trapper Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America, also said his organization had no comment.