MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Emily Gurnon
egurnon@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 03/26/2014
A Ramsey County judge reasserted Wednesday that the Archbishop John Nienstedt’s deposition in a case involving former priest Thomas Adamson not be sealed.
“I had no intention of providing a protection order to the depositions coming up … I thought that was pretty clear,” he told attorneys in court for another priest sexual abuse lawsuit.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis had asked District Judge John Van de North to prevent a plaintiff’s attorneys from questioning Nienstedt and his former deputy, Rev. Kevin McDonough. Van de North denied that request.
In a memorandum filed Monday, the archdiocese asked that those depositions be sealed once completed unless the plaintiff “bring(s) a motion to show good cause as to why such information should be publicly disclosed.”
Van de North made it clear that he hoped the issue would not be rehashed Thursday morning, when attorneys in the Adamson case return to court.
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