$500k at Stake for Catholic Church in Nevada Supreme Court

KTVN
January 6, 2015

http://www.ktvn.com/story/27772412/500k-at-stake-for-catholic-church-in-nevada-supreme-court

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Nevada Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments Tuesday on an appeal by Catholic church officials of a $500,000 jury award to a man who says he was molested as a 13-year-old by a priest who had moved from Wisconsin to Las Vegas.

A lawyer for the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay argued the case shouldn't be in Nevada, that it should've been thrown out before trial, and that the diocese shouldn't have been held responsible in 2012 for the priests' actions in 1984.

The priest, John Feeney, was convicted in Wisconsin in 2004 of molesting two boys, defrocked and imprisoned. The Green Bay Diocese paid a $700,000 civil judgment in that case.

The Nevada case accused church officials of failing to notify officials in Nevada of Feeney's past conduct.

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