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...measures to protect--or hide, depending on your point of view--their assets. But it is also prompting new scrutiny of their corporate structures and raising questions about who should be held accountable for the sins of the fathers. "They act no different than Enron," says Miami attorney Ron Weil, who has pursued scores of sexual-abuse cases. "It's a very transparent effort to insulate themselves from liability...
...layered defenses, in part by showing that church officials responsible for supervising wayward priests also effectively control the corporations and entities that own church property. In a Miami case, the archdiocese claimed that it had no control over a parish school where a teacher molested a student. But attorney Weil showed that the diocese controlled not only curriculum and teacher appointments but also scheduling for the school conference rooms. The church settled before the case went to trial. "This is akin to a private getting caught and the general saying, 'He doesn't work for me,'" says Weil. "They...
Germer began meeting with Schlecht and reading religious texts by authors like C.S. Lewis and Simone Weil. “I was really hungering for a spiritual aspect of my life,” she says. “Because I’d been studying it. And I liked watching it in other people…I just didn’t know if I could get past my belief that the knowledge of God is really beyond human understanding...
...Amount one firm, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, filed for copying costs for that month...
...Drugs" has cost untold billions, made a mockery of the Bill of Rights and been a total failure. Congratulations to those European governments that have dropped this bankrupt policy [WORLD, Aug. 20]. The only ones who ever benefited were the police, the prison industry and drug dealers. RICHARD WEIL St. Paul, Minn...