Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington v. Noble

Dissenting Opinion By

Chief Justice LAMBERT, Justice KELLER, and Justice STUMBO.

I. INTRODUCTION

We respectfully dissent from the majority opinion and would affirm the Court of Appeals decision denying the Roman Cath-ohc Diocese of Lexington’s (“Diocese’s”) petition for extraordinary relief. In our opinion, the terminal flaw in the majority opinion’s analysis is its rebanee upon an unsubstantiated assumption that the trial court’s failure to seal the stricken portions of the First Amended Complaint “could endanger ... the Diocese’s right to a fair trial.”1 Although the trial court conducted a…