TERCERO v. ROMAN CATH. DIOCESE OF NORWICH

No. 25,618.

48 P.3d 50 (2002)

132 N.M. 312

2002-NMSC-018

Navor TERCERO, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF NORWICH, Connecticut, Defendant-Petitioner, and Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, a New Mexico Corporation, Servants of the Paraclete, f/k/a Via Coeli, Father Barney Bissonnette, and the Estate of John McCarthy, M.D., Defendants.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

Rehearing Denied June 12, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beall & Biehler, P.A., Lisa P. Ford, Albuquerque, NM, for Petitioner.

Law Office of Daymon Ely, Daymon B. Ely, Albuquerque, NM, for Respondent.


OPINION

MAES, Justice.

{1} This appeal involves the alleged sexual molestation of then school boy Plaintiff-Respondent, Tercero, by Father Bissonnette (Bissonnette) between 1966-68, while he was a priest at the Santa Fe Archdiocese. The issue presented on appeal is whether the district court in New Mexico has long-arm jurisdiction over Defendant-Petitioner, the Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, (the Diocese) in the resulting lawsuit. The trial...

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