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New Orleans Archdiocese Turns to Federal Court to Attack Law Aiding Abuse Victims, by Ramon Antonio Vargas – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

New Orleans Archdiocese Turns to Federal Court to Attack Law Aiding Abuse Victims, by Ramon Antonio Vargas

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By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Guardian, September 24, 2024

Months after Louisiana’s supreme court upheld the constitutionality of a state law that let child molestation victims sue for long-ago abuse, despite arguments to the contrary by a Roman Catholic diocese, another church organization is asking the federal government to strike the statute down.

Behind the request in question are the Dominican Sisters of Peace and a law firm that boasts about having represented Catholic institutions in Louisiana courts for more than a century. Another of the law firm’s clients in question, the archdiocese of New Orleans, is offering clergy molestation victims less than 10% of what they are requesting in a bankruptcy settlement, in part by arguing the so-called “look-back window” law doesn’t apply to more than 600 abuse claims.

The law that the Dominican Sisters and their Denechaud and Denechaud attorneys are targeting doesn’t exclusively apply in cases of Catholic clergy abuse. But the state supreme court’s decision to uphold the look-back window had major implications for the New Orleans archdiocese.

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