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	Stall Tactics, Needless Pleadings, As Church Tries to Strike Rucker Cases and Avoid Production of Documents in Pedophile Priest Civil Hearings City of Angels [Los Angeles] April 12, 2007 http://cityofangels3.blogspot.com/2007/04/stall-tactics-needless-pleadings-as.html Hearings next week reveal the ongoing battle as church attorneys try to get cases thrown out of court and set up roadblocks to cases in progress. Meanwhile plaintiff attorneys have to file motions over and over again to get the church to turn over documents that have already been ordered produced by this court. Thursday morning Judge Haley Fromholz declared more than 70 cases ready to be combined for jury trials. His upcoming order will detail the calendar of additional trials. Liaison attorneys from both sides met in chambers Thursday in a status conference. These 70-plus cases, where discovery has progressed since November, will likely go to trials before December. Church attorneys are stalling a case that is set for jury trial August 6, 2007. In the "Pepito & Uranga" case in a hearing April 17 plaintiff attorney Katherine Freberg requests a court order "compelling the custodian of records of St. John's Seminary, Monsignor Helmut Hefner, to produce documents requested of him at a deposition which documents the deponent failed to produce." Judge Fromholz ordered the entire St. Johns Seminary file turned over last year in cases regarding prolific pedophile priest Lynn Caffoe.
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