The U.S. District Court for Guam has granted our client’s Motion for Letters Rogatory to serve the Vatican City (“Holy See”) with a complaint and summons. A Motion for Letters Rogatory is a request to a U.S. court for help in serving a foreign country that has not...
This week the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, has been made a defendant in three different lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by clergy on the island of Guam. Guam is heavily Catholic as a result of the Spanish who occupied the island beginning in the 1600s. In...