NEVADA
Courthouse News Service
By MIKE HEUER
CARSON CITY, NEV. (CN) – The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., need not pay a $500,000 judgment to the man who claims that a priest molested him when he was 13 in 1984, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled.
Because Nevada’s Clark County District Court does not have jurisdiction over the diocese, the justices unanimously reversed its $500,000 award to an unidentified man.
“The diocese did not have sufficient contacts with Nevada,” Justice Michael Cherry wrote for the court Thursday.
John P. Feeney, the former priest at the center of the litigation, had originally been assigned to the diocese in Wisconsin, and then moved on to Los Angeles before winding up in Las Vegas.
In his complaint, John Doe said the diocese was aware Feeney molested children in Wisconsin but “negligently retained and supervised Feeney and failed to warn others that Feeney was a danger to children,” Cherry wrote.
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