Yeshiva University Past President May Be Excused from Testifying in $380 Million Sex Abuse Lawsuit

By Daniel Beekman
New York Daily News
September 26, 2013

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/yeshiva-university-president-excused-testifying-article-1.1467980

Norman Lamm has a doctor's note saying he has a 'cognitive impairment' that makes him an unreliable witness. The 85-year-old former administrator apologized for sex abuse scandal that has rocked the institution he once led.

Rabbi Norman Lamm retired from Yeshiva University and has been diagnosed with a "cognitive impairment" that could prevent him from being a witness.

The former president of Yeshiva University has a doctor’s note that could excuse him from testifying in the shocking $380 million sex abuse lawsuit against the Washington Heights institution.

Norman Lamm, a longtime Yeshiva administrator named as a defendant in the federal case, has a “cognitive impairment” that makes him an unreliable witness, a brain expert determined earlier this month, Lamm’s lawyer said.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs — former Yeshiva University High School for Boys students who claim they were abused by staff decades ago — want to depose Lamm, 85, who stepped down as chancellor of the school and apologized for the scandal just before the suit was filed.