High court says newspapers can intervene in abuse settlement : AP
The state Supreme Court ruled Friday that newspapers can ask for documents related to the Bridgeport Diocese’s settlement of priest abuse cases but left it up to a lower court to decide whether to release them.
Attorneys for The Hartford Courant, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Boston Globe argued that the public has a constitutional right under the First Amendment to see the records.
They say the sealing orders expired when the diocese settled the lawsuits in 2001.
Cardinal Egan was bishop of Bridgeport from 1988 to 2000. Disclosure of the details of these settlements can't be good news for him.
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