Rita M. v. Roman Catholic Archbishop

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that church could not be held vicariously liable for sexual molestation of child by priests
• holding that diocese and priest have an employer-employee relationship
• Roman Catholic Church not vicariously liable for priests' alleged sexual contact with a minor parishioner
• repeated acts of intercourse between seven priests and female parishioner provides “no basis for imputing liability” to the church
• church not liable for sexual misconduct of priest because sexual assault was not “characteristic of the activities of the enterprise”
• Roman Catholic Church not vicariously liable for priests’ alleged sexual contact with a minor parishioner

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).