MILWAUKEE (WI)
Fox 6
by Ben Handelman, updated on: 12:45pm, April 5, 2012
MILWAUKEE — A judge in Federal Bankruptcy Court ruled Thursday to keep all depositions in priest abuse cases against the Milwaukee Archdiocese sealed.
Judge Susan Kelley heard arguments from church lawyers who asked the Court to keep sealed new court depositions of top church officials, including bishops Rembert Weakland and Richard Sklba.
Lawyers for the victims in these cases wanted the depositions unsealed. They say doing so would allow the public to see what the church knew or didn’t know — and what was done or not done.
However, lawyers for the Milwaukee Archdiocese said there is no guarantee if the documents were unsealed, names that were not supposed to be made public would be accidentally leaked. They also maintained this case is about getting claimants paid, not embarrassing victims.
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