LOS ANGELES (CA)
CBS 47

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles could turn over at least a dozen priest personnel files to a plaintiff’s attorney within days after the California Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling ordering the release.

Archdiocese attorney J. Michael Hennigan said Thursday that the files will remain under a protective order.

The ruling doesn’t apply to a larger pool of priest files that was part of a $660 million settlement with 550 plaintiffs.

Hennigan says those will be released publicly in three months and need to be heavily redacted.