Latham & Watkins Catholic Church Abuse Probe Denied Disclosure

A Latham & Watkins investigation into abuse by a cardinal at Seton Hall University was mostly protected from litigation disclosure despite the school sharing it with the Vatican, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday.

The Big Law investigation and accompanying documents were gathered after allegations arose concerning Theodore McCarrick, a bishop and cardinal who served as archbishop of Newark from 1986 to 2000, and who held high-ranking leadership positions at Seton Hall.

After allegations hit the media the university hired Gibbons PC, which in turn hired Latham & Watkins to investigate allegations that McCarrick had abused seminarians studying at ...