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# Kelley Drye Successfully Defends Archdiocese in Unsafe Property Case

 June 26, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kelley Drye successfully represented the Archdiocese of New York in a lawsuit brought by five former parishioners of St. Brigid parish on the lower east side in Manhattan. The plaintiffs sought a court order that would require the Archdiocese to reopen St. Brigid Church, which had been closed several years ago. The Church had fallen into disrepair. As reported in the *New York Law Journal*, the Court found that ​“it would be an ​‘impermissible intrusion’ into Cardinal Egan’s ecclesiastical authority to mandate that he ... reopen the building as a church and/or to require him to operate a parish therein.”

This was the third in a series of this type of victory Kelley Drye has achieved on behalf of the Archdiocese over the past two years.

 

 

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