LAS VEGAS (WTAQ) – The Nevada Supreme Court has thrown out a half-million dollar jury award to a man who said he was groped by a former Wisconsin priest who was transferred to Las Vegas.
The justices unanimously ruled that the Green Bay Catholic Diocese did not have enough ties to Nevada to be held liable for what John Patrick Feeney did.
The anonymous plaintiff, who’s now 44, filed suit in 2008 alleging he was groped in 1984 when he was 13.
His lawyer, Jeffrey Anderson, called the Supreme Court decision a heartbreaker and a “kick in the gut.”
Claims against Feeney, the Reno-Las Vegas Catholic diocese, and its bishop were dropped before the case went to trial.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
