EDWARDO v. ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF PROVIDENCE

No. 22-0278 August Term 2022.

66 F.4th 69 (2023)

Philip EDWARDO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF PROVIDENCE, St. Anthony's Church Corporation North Providence, and Louis E. Gelineau, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 17, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Phillips , Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Howard A. Merten , Partridge Snow & Hahn, LLP, Providence, RI ( Eugene G. Bernardo II , Partridge Snow & Hahn, LLP, Providence, RI; William E. Vita , Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, New York, NY on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Park and Lee, Circuit Judges, and Stein, District Judge.


Plaintiff Philip Edwardo alleges that he was sexually abused and exploited from approximately 1978 to 1984, when he was between 12 and 17 years old, by Father Philip Magaldi, a now-deceased Rhode Island priest. Edwardo sued the Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence ("RCB"), St. Anthony's Church Corporation North Providence ("St. Anthony's"),...

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