Later that month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it was investigating the law, arguing that it violates the ...

A federal judge blocked Washington law requiring clergy to report child abuse, citing First Amendment concerns raised by ...

The controversial law, now the center of a lawsuit, requires priests to report abuse even when disclosed during confession.

TACOMA, Wash. (CN) — With a Washington state law requiring clergy members to report child abuse disclosures made in sacramental confession set to take effect in just under two weeks, Catholic bishops ...

Lawyers representing the Catholic bishops of Washington have asked a federal judge to block the state's recently passed mandatory reporting law from taking effect later this month, alleging in a ...

A federal judge is considering whether to block a WA law requiring clergy to report abuse — even if revealed during ...

DOJ sues Washington over SB 5375, a law mandating that clergy report abuse to police. ... The Washington State Republican Party issued a news release supporting the DOJ’s lawsuit.

Several Orthodox churches filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Washington on Monday (June 16) over a recently passed law mandating clergy to report child abuse and neglect, even if ...

Though the law requires priests to report abuse, it does not compel them to testify in court. In response, a number of bishops filed a lawsuit, Etienne v. Ferguson, to stop the law. On June 16, a ...

RELATED: U.S. Justice Department investigating new WA law requiring clergy to report child abuse. Washington’s new law was targeted by Trump’s justice department last month, and on Monday, DOJ ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (KPTV) - The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the state of Washington over a new state law requiring clergy to report child abuse to law enforcement.