A Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge has denied the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s attempts to impose a confidentiality order on an ongoing civil suit involving alleged sex abuse.
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Mark I. Bernstein denied the church’s motion for confidentiality and phased discovery last week, holding instead that the parties can only redact Social Security numbers, dollar amounts of any financial information, and the names of alleged victims of child sexual abuse. The order was made in the case McIlmail v. Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
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