MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Madeleine Baran St. Paul, Minn. Mar 5, 2014
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has cleared the way for attorneys representing an alleged victim of clergy sexual abuse to interview Archbishop John Nienstedt.
In a three-page order issued Wednesday, Chief Judge Edward Cleary denied requests by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona to block depositions of Nienstedt and former vicar general Kevin McDonough.
Victims’ attorney Jeff Anderson has scheduled Nienstedt’s deposition for April 2 and McDonough’s deposition for April 16. He had scheduled the depositions for March but postponed them because of the appeal.
“We’re glad that we can move this thing forward, and that they saw this as the judge did,” Anderson said.
A spokesman for the archdiocese did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Court of Appeals’ decision came in a lawsuit brought by a man who claims he was sexually abused as a child by the Rev. Thomas Adamson in 1976 and 1977.
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