Doe 2 v. Superior Court

Opinion

COOPER, P. J.

This writ proceeding concerns a discovery dispute in an action brought against four local United Methodist churches by three persons who allege they were sexually abused as minors in the 1970’s by a probationary clergy member of one of the churches. The trial court granted motions by the plaintiffs to compel one of the churches to provide further responses to interrogatories and to produce documents in response to a production request. In doing so, the court rejected the church’s claims based on the clergy-penitent privilege (Evid. Code, § 1034), 1 the privacy rights of…