KAVANAGH v. ZWILLING

No. 12 Civ. 7062(JMF).

997 F.Supp.2d 241 (2014)

Charles M. KAVANAGH, Plaintiff, v. Joseph ZWILLING, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 14, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Peters , Ann K. Mandt , J. Douglas Peters , Charfoos & Christensen, P.C. Detroit, MI, John Dearie , Law J. C. Dearie , Bronx, NY, Thomas Anthony Boyle, Jr. , John A. Aretakis , New York, NY, for Plaintiff.

John Morgan Callagy , Nicholas John Panarella , Kelley Drye & Warren, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

JESSE M. FURMAN, District Judge:

Plaintiff Charles Kavanagh is a former Catholic priest who was defrocked after being found guilty in a secret church trial of the ecclesiastical sin of sexual abuse of a minor. (Compl. (Docket No. 1) ¶¶ 1, 29, 30). After his conviction, Plaintiff pursued a defamation claim in this Court against his accuser, Daniel Donohue, which resulted in a settlement pursuant to which Donohue signed a...

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