ST. LOUIS (MO)
Houston Chronicle
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press | January 3, 2014
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri appeals court ruled Friday that the Archdiocese of St. Louis did not have to release the names of priests accused of sexual abuse in the past 20 years as part of a lawsuit against the archdiocese.
A St. Louis judge had given the archdiocese a Friday deadline to turn over the names to a woman who sued, alleging that she was molested by a priest when she was a child, and to the woman’s attorney. Otherwise, the names were to be kept under seal.
The Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals ruling did not say if release of the names would eventually be required, nor did it set a new deadline.
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