MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Madeleine Baran St. Paul, Minn. Oct 13, 2014
Attorneys connected to a landmark public nuisance lawsuit against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona confirmed Monday that a settlement had been reached and that the case has been dismissed. But they said financial terms of the settlement will remain confidential.
Attorney Jeff Anderson this morning said Ramsey County Judge Van de North approved the settlement terms in a meeting this morning. An attorney for the archdiocese said the financial settlement will be confidential at the request of the victim.
Part of the deal will include a process for releasing the names of accused priests currently under seal.
Anderson is expected to speak in detail to the media at a 1 p.m. press conference. He has said generally the agreement will require ongoing disclosure to his law firm and the public about abuse cases and that the agreement is more extensive than a deal reached years earlier with St. John’s Abbey about its handling of clergy abuse claims.
Anderson had filed the suit in Ramsey County last year on behalf of a man who said he was sexually abused as a child by the Rev. Thomas Adamson in the late 1970s. Adamson, who served in the Twin Cities archdiocese and the Winona diocese, is no longer a priest.
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