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By: Mike Mosedale September 2, 2015
In clergy sex abuse cases: Who gets to review victims’ claims?
The Wall Street Journal checks in on the latest legal jousting in U.S. Bankruptcy Court between the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and victims of clergy sex abuse.
Plaintiffs attorneys are pushing back against a request to allow as many as 1,000 additional individuals – including parish pastors, parish financial councils, board members and other lawyers – to review “the unusually detailed and intensely personal details” in the victims’ claims.
While those particulars have already been eyeballed by the archdiocese, insurance carriers, and the parishes’ bankruptcy lawyers, Mary Jo. A. Jensen-Carter – a lawyer representing a group of parishes – said in court papers that it is “imperative that individuals governing the parish be involved in the process of analyzing the claims.”
Judge Robert Kressel is expected to take up the matter at a hearing in Minneapolis tomorrow.
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