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Criminal

Sep. 2, 2006

Panel Upholds Dismissal of Felon's Suit Against Diocese

SAN FRANCISCO - The judge presiding over all the priest sex abuse cases in Northern California has allowed one plaintiff to miss the official deadline for filing a lawsuit because he claimed he'd repressed a bad memory for 40 years.

By Tim Hay
Daily Journal Staff Writer
     
SAN FRANCISCO - The judge presiding over all the priest sex abuse cases in Northern California has allowed one plaintiff to miss the official deadline for filing a lawsuit because he claimed he'd repressed a bad memory for 40 years.
      But when a prison inmate without the help of a lawyer filed the wrong paperwork to bring his own sui...

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