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DOE v. ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH

S21G0549.

870 S.E.2d 365 (2022)

DOE v. SAINT JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: March 8, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Brian Terry , Jane D. Vincent , Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP, 1201 West Peachtree Street, N.W., Suite 3900, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3417, Darren Wade Penn , Alexandra "Sachi" Cole , Penn Law LLC, 4200 Northside Parkway, NW, Building One, Suite 100, Atlanta, Georgia 30327, for Appellant.

Melina Danielle Lewis , University of Georgia School of Law, 225 Herty Drive, PO Box 1792, Athens, Georgia 30602, Emily M. Hetherington , Wilbanks Cease Clinic, University of Georgia School of Law, P.O. Box 1792, Athens, Georgia 30603, for Amicus Appellant.

Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr. , Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, 1105 W. Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 1000, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3608, for Appellee.

In December 2018, Phillip Doe filed suit against Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, Archbishop Wilton Gregory, and the Archdiocese of Atlanta (collectively, "the Church"), asserting various tort claims based in part on childhood sexual abuse Doe allegedly suffered while serving as an altar boy at Saint Joseph's in the late 1970s.

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