LOUISVILLE (KY)
The Courier-Journal
By Gregory A. Hall
ghall@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
A Kentucky Court of Appeals ruling released yesterday will allow Kyle Burden's lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville to proceed.
Burden sued the archdiocese in 2002 alleging that it covered up sexual abuse in the 1980s by Daniel Clark, then an archdiocesan priest.
A year ago, Jefferson Circuit Judge Thomas B. Wine denied the archdiocese's request for summary judgment, saying the church failed to prove that Burden had not filed his lawsuit in a timely fashion.
The archdiocese asked the three-judge Kentucky Court of Appeals panel to overturn Wine's ruling, repeating its claim that Burden waited too long to file his suit.