With several states, including California and New York, having temporarily lifted statutes of limitation on child sex abuse claims, a number of Catholic dioceses have declared or are poised to declare bankruptcy.
California, New York dioceses’ bankruptcies over abuse reveal tension between civil, canon law over assets
Judge orders release of redacted report on child sex abuse in Baltimore Archdiocese
The judge ordered the attorney general’s office to redact more than 200 names from the report and submit it to the court by mid-March.
Texas death-row inmate takes plea for DNA testing to Supreme Court
In this case, the justices were specifically looking at a procedural question: whether Reed had been too late in filing his civil rights lawsuit against state officials who had rejected his requests for DNA testing of crime-scene evidence he hoped would clear him.