Pretrial Hearing May 30th - To Compel Roger Mahony to Respond in LA Civil Cases Against Roman Catholic Church

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By City of Angels Lady

Wednesday May 30 is a hearing to get Cardinal Roger Mahony to respond to interrogatories at LA Superior Court Dept 20 8:31 AM. On May 16th counsel for the church and plaintiffs met in the Jury Room on orders from the judge to meet and confer on this motion now continued to the hearing Wednesday. The "Motion-Compel Further Responses (by Defendant Doe 1) to Standardized Interrogatories 1-8" regards case BC307225, and predator priest Lynn Caffoe.

Some background: The archbishop’s responses are “evasive or incomplete” writes Katherine Freberg in the Motion to Compel filed April 14th. Interrogatories 1 through 8 ask about archdiocese employees accused of sex crimes. Mahony needs to respond writes Freberg, “to see archbishop’s response to complaints about Father Caffoe” and whether he “failed to take steps to implement reasonable safeguards.”

Answers to these interrogatories will reveal if it’s true as Mahony has said that “the known incidents of abuse were few in number and generally perceived not to be indicative of a pattern.”

Direct quote from the motion: “The Archbishop so far has been unwilling to verify the truthfulness of his responses in a verification signed under penalty of perjury, nor has he been willing to provide complete answers to interrogatories.”

Date of this hearing May 30, trial date August 7th.

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MORE BACKGROUND

On Motion To Compel Mahony to Respond

August 17, 2006 court ordered archbishop to respond with answers to interrogatories 1 to 8 for the time period 1965 to 1982.

December 15, 2006, archbishop served “unverified” responses -- about a total of 11 priests with information that had already been provided in the archbishop ’s public papers.

January 19, 2007, plaintiffs requested verification for the unsworn responses to interrogatories.

Again requested verification in letters February 1, 6, 12, and March 7, 2007.

Finally plaintiffs submitted motion to compel because “to date, none of these documents have been received.”

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Blogs Coming Memorial Day Weekend:

SATURDAY: Father Falvey and Blessed Sacrament in the heart of the birth of mainstream porn movies in Hollywood

SUNDAY: Weird things happen since I’ve been writing this blog

(Like remember this from May 23rd blog? Paul Kreutzer saying oh I lied in 2003 when I was talking on tape to the FBI. )

“Kreutzer is trying to get a major piece of evidence thrown out a taped interview he gave to the FBI. In their opposition papers to the amended complaint for damages filed May 21, Baker Baker Fink et al Church Attorneys say Kreutzer ‘submitted in his April 23, 2007 deposition that he lied in his June 27, 2003, interview with federal agents (that) he lied in the subject statements in an effort to protect one of his alleged victims.’

(Well that document has disappeared from the screens. I was document diving today and could not find it. It just disappeared.)

Paul Kreutzer’s case will be the first in a series of jury trials opening June 11th same date as the 2nd season premier of Big Love on HBO.

MONDAY: Lots and lots of document diving

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Calendar of hearings next week:

Direct from LA Superior Court website (their typos not mine)

05/30/2007 at 08:31 am in department 20 at 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 MOTION - COMPEL FURTHER RESPONSES (BY DEFENDAN DOE 1 TO STANDARDIZEDINTERROGATORIES 1-8;cont from 05-16-07;RE: BC307225;)

05/30/2007 at 08:31 am in department 20 at 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Hearing on Demurrer (AND MOTION TO STRIKE(PAPERS FILED ON 3/07)**CONT FROM 4/25**RE: BC291179)

05/30/2007 at 08:31 am in department 20 at 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Motion to Quash (AND DISMISS(PAPERS FILED ON 3/07)**CONT FROM 4/17**RE: YC048257)

05/30/2007 at 08:31 am in department 20 at 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Motion for Sanctions ((PAPERS FILED ON 4/27)RE: BC308665)

05/30/2007 at 08:31 am in department 20 at 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Hearing on Demurrer (AND MOTION TO QUASH AND DISMISS(PAPERS FILED ON 3/07)**CONT FROM 4/24**RE: BC308556)

05/31/2007 at 08:30 am in department 20 at 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Final Status Conference (KREUTZER CASES)

More to Come. . .