MINNESOTA
Wall Street Journal
By TOM CORRIGAN
Lawyers representing more than 400 clergy sexual-abuse victims will head to court this week to fight a request from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’s parishes for permission to review victims’ confidential bankruptcy claims.
Victims’ lawyers said that if the parishes’ request is approved by a judge, it could result in the dissemination of “unusually detailed and intensely personal” information to more than 1,000 additional recipients.
“Many of the additional permitted parties will reside in smaller parishes outside of the metropolitan area where confidential information is more likely to be linked to specific claimants,” Robert Kugler, a lawyer for the committee representing abuse victims, said in court papers.
Lawyers for the parishes, however, say the information included in the claims is crucial to efforts to broker a settlement with victims.
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