A state appeals court is allowing a whistleblower suit to proceed against the Archdiocese of New York in which a fired employee alleges that a residency director for elderly Catholic priests injected a fatal overdose to a priest to hasten his death so that she could more conveniently schedule his funeral to accommodate church executives’ attendance.

The Appellate Division, First Department’s decision affirmed a lower-court decision that rejected the archdiocese’s pre-discovery motion to dismiss the claim for retaliatory discharge that was lodged in 2021 by former employee Esperidion Senal.

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