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US supreme court rejects appeal from lawyer punished over effort to remove abusive priest
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Richard Trahant fined $400,000 over apparent violation of order in case of priest who admitted sexual misconduct The US supreme court has rejected an appeal from an attorney who was fined $400,000 after taking steps to get an abusive Roman Catholic priest removed as chaplain of a high school campus.In a notice on Monday, the supreme court’s justices indicated without explanation that they would not take up the case of Richard Trahant, whose clients include dozens of people victimized by a clergy abuse scandal that drove New Orleans’ Catholic archdiocese into federal bankruptcy court. Continue reading...
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