Judge Orders L.A. Archdiocese to Surrender Records of Priests

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A judge Wednesday ordered the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese to surrender confidential records of two former priests as part of a clergy sex abuse investigation.

Thomas F. Nuss, a retired state judge appointed to review church personnel records subpoenaed by a county grand jury, said the Archdiocese of Los Angeles cannot withhold potential evidence or proof of clerical sex abuse by claiming communications between priests and bishops are confidential.

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Judge Orders L.A. Archdiocese to Surrender Records of Priests

In weighing the balance between private personnel files and potential evidence of abuse, Nuss wrote in his 32-page ruling that the subpoenas don't "have as a principal or...

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