MINNESOTA
St. Cloud Times
A Ramsey County judge reasserted Wednesday that Archbishop John Nienstedt’s deposition in a case involving former priest Thomas Adamson not be sealed.
“I had no intention of providing a protection order to the depositions coming up. … I thought that was pretty clear,” District Judge John Van de North told attorneys in court for another priest sexual abuse lawsuit.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis had asked Van de North to prevent a plaintiff’s attorneys from questioning Nienstedt and his former deputy, the Rev. Kevin McDonough. Van de North denied that request.
In a memorandum filed Monday, the archdiocese asked that those depositions be sealed once completed unless the plaintiff “bring(s) a motion to show good cause as to why such information should be publicly disclosed.”
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