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Local Catholics were encouraged that the Philadelphia district attorney and grand jury, which had been investigating archdiocesan sexual-abuse allegations since 2002, had produced no criminal indictments. The report explicitly, and often sarcastically, dismisses the archdiocese's claims that it took seriously all credible allegations of sexual abuse, that it acted responsibly in sending accused priests into professional therapy, and that it removed the worst offenders from ministry and sent others to serve in settings where they could not threaten children. The grand jury found plenty of evidence that would have supported indictments of individual priests for the crimes of rape, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, endangering the welfare...
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, John R. Padova, J. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED David Curtis Gleb...
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Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Civil Action No. 00-cv-02425 District Judge: Hon. Harvey Bartle ...
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Helen T. Kane, (Argued), Office of the District Attorney, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellants.
Before ROTH, FUENTES and GARTH, Circuit Judges.
OPINION O...
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Elizabeth K. Ainslie (Argued) Jennifer A. Diamantis, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Counsel for Appellee.
Before: SLOVITER...
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Peter Goldberger (Argued), Pamela A. Wilk, Law Office of Peter Goldberger, Ardmore, PA, for Appellant.
Donna G. Zucker (Argued), Chief, Federal Litig...
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Joseph Leibowicz, (Argued), James S. Malloy, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, Pittsburgh, for Appellant.
Lynne Abraham, District Attorney of Philadelphia,...
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Edward Griffith, Duane, Morris & Heckscher, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.
F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, Dist. Atty., Mark Sendrow, Michael R. Stiles, S...
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Jeffrey M. Miller, Carmen C. Nasuti (argued), Nasuti & Miller, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellee.
Donna G. Zucker (argued), Chief, Federal Litigation, R...
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Jeffrey P. Shender (argued), Defender Ass'n of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, for appellant.
Elizabeth J. Chambers (argued), Office of Dist. Atty., ...