Making good on their verbal threat in open court to “spend down” the
remaining money left in their estate to prevent 575 victims of rape,
sexual assault and abuse by clergy of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee from
receiving restitution, lawyers for Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki
have filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
They seek to overturn a U.S. 7th Circuit decisive ruling that a fraudulent “cemetery trust” created by former Archbishop Timothy Dolan, now cardinal of New York, was not “protected” by federal religious laws or the First Amendment and can be used to compensate survivors.
http://www.wisconsingazette.com/opinion/church-still-evades-payments-to-abuse-victims.html
They seek to overturn a U.S. 7th Circuit decisive ruling that a fraudulent “cemetery trust” created by former Archbishop Timothy Dolan, now cardinal of New York, was not “protected” by federal religious laws or the First Amendment and can be used to compensate survivors.
http://www.wisconsingazette.com/opinion/church-still-evades-payments-to-abuse-victims.html