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ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. B179053.

28 Cal.Rptr.3d 355 (2005)

128 Cal.App.4th 1155

The ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF OAKLAND, etc., Petitioner, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of the State of California for the County of Alameda, Respondent; Bob Thatcher, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Eight.

Review Denied July 27, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bledsoe, Cathcart, Diestel & Pedersen, Richard S. Diestel, and Alison M. Crane, San Francisco; Foley & Lardner, and Stephen A. McFeely, Los Angeles; Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Christina J. Imre, and Douglas J. Collodel, Los Angeles, for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Furtado, Jaspovice & Simons, and Richard J. Simons, Hayward, for Real Party in Interest.

RUBIN, J.

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland, a corporation sole (Bishop), petitions for a writ of mandate to preclude plaintiff Bob Thatcher from seeking punitive damages in Thatcher's suit against the Bishop for childhood sexual abuse by one of the Bishop's priests. According to the Bishop, punitive damages in this case violate the ex post facto clauses of the United States and California Constitutions because they...

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