A judge ruled July 12 that the Washington state attorney general does not have legal authority to enforce a subpoena for clergy abuse records against the Archdiocese of Seattle, specifically ...

CNA Staff, Jul 13, 2024 / 10:45 am. A judge in Washington state on Friday rejected the state attorney general’s request to enforce a subpoena against the Archdiocese of Seattle as part of an ...

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson has said he will appeal a judge’s decision to reject his request to enforce a subpoena against the Archdiocese of Seattle, while Archbishop Paul Etienne ...

SEATTLE — A Washington state judge said Friday that Attorney General Bob Ferguson is not entitled to enforce a subpoena seeking decades of records from the Seattle Archdiocese, despite his ...

Because the Seattle Archdiocese refused to comply with the office’s subpoena, the office now must seek a court order to move the investigation forward. This process made the investigation public.” ...

A King County Superior Court judge ruled Friday that Washington’s Attorney General’s Office could not force the Seattle Archdiocese to turn over documents showing how the Catholic institution ...

AG Bob Ferguson said the Seattle Archdiocese is not cooperating with the investigation or a subpoena, so he's taking the organization to court. To stream KING 5 on your phone, you need the KING 5 app.

The Archdiocese of Seattle faces two new lawsuits for alleged child sexual abuse that occurred in the 1970s and 1980s, adding to a growing list of ongoing cases against the institution.

SEATTLE — Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Thursday he’s seeking a court order to force the Seattle Archdiocese to turn over files on priests accused of sexual abuse ...

Updated at 4:06 p.m. On Friday, officials at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, D.C., and in Rome received a letter from Seattle area survivors of child sexual abuse and their advocates.