Legal Battles Over WA Clergy Child Abuse Confidentiality Law
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A federal judge in Washington blocked the enforcement of a law requiring priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession, citing First Amendment rights and religious freedom concerns, while allowing other mandatory reporting laws to stand.
- Judge blocks WA requirement for priests to report child abuse disclosed in confession Washington State Standard
- Catholic bishops call mandatory reporting law 'brazen act of religious discrimination' Fox News
- Trump administration intervenes to help block law requiring priests to report child abuse revealed in confessions The Independent
- Judge grants injunction against Washington law requiring clergy to report child abuse KING5.com
- WA state law requiring clergy to report child abuse on hold The Seattle Times
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