Supreme Court of Louisiana

By Per Curiam
Supreme Court of Louisiana
July 12, 2014

http://www.lasc.org/opinions/2014/13C2879.pc.pdf

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This writ presents the issue of whether a party is precluded from offering any evidence of her confession and whether a priest has a duty to report allegations of sexual abuse perpetrated on a minor parishioner. For the following reasons, we grant the plaintiffs’ writ, reversing and vacating the court of appeal’s judgment and reinstating the trial court’s judgment.