TICHENOR v. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF NEW ORLEANS

Nos. 93-3601, 93-3759.

32 F.3d 953 (1994)

Ronald TICHENOR, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF the ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants. Ronald TICHENOR, Plaintiff, v. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF the ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS, et al., Defendants. Dino CINEL, Defendant-Cross Claimant-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTEE COMPANY, Cross-Defendant Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 26, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Darryl J. Tschirn, Metairie, LA, David R. Paddison, Covington, LA, for Ronald Tichenor.

Don M. Richard, Denechaud & Denechaud, Dwight C. Paulsen, III, C. William Bradley, Jr., Richard E. Gruner, Jr., Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, LA, for Roman Catholic Archdiocese and St. Rita.

Thomas E. Loehn, Boggs, Loehn & Rodrigue, New Orleans, LA, for U.S. Fidelity & Guar. Co.

Dino Cinel, pro se.

Edwin A. Stoutz, Jr., New Orleans, LA, (argued), for appellant.

Before WISDOM and JONES, Circuit Judges, and FITZWATER, District Judge.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

Dino Cinel, a Catholic priest, engaged in sexual relations with Ronald Wayne Tichenor for several years beginning while Tichenor was an adolescent.1 That relationship spawned this and other litigation.2 The two cases we have consolidated for the purposes of this appeal are limited to the comparatively narrow questions of personal jurisdiction, statute of limitations, and the duty to defend...

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