The law, adopted during the 2025 legislative session, has sparked a federal lawsuit, an investigation by the Department of Justice over claims of anti-Catholic bias and vows by Catholic leadership in ...

A federal judge has ruled to temporarily block a Washington state law that would force clergy members to report child abuse, ...

The Department of Justice had lent its support to Catholic leaders who said the new law would force them to choose between ...

Church leaders said the law, which was set to take effect later this month, would have required them to report child abuse ...

A federal judge on Friday blocked a Washington state law requiring Catholic priests to report suspected child abuse or neglect, including any information they learn from sacramental confession, raisin ...

A federal court on July 18 temporarily blocked a new law in Washington state requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege.

"The text of the bill and its legislative history arguably evince the intentional abrogation of a practice that the ...

U.S. District Judge David Estudillo ruled that the new law, previously set to take effect July 27, singled out clergy for ...

A judge halted a Washington law from taking effect that would compel clergy to report child abuse or neglect, no matter how ...

A federal judge in Tacoma on Friday blocked a law that would have required priests to break penitent privilege to report ...

A federal judge has halted a Washington state law that required Catholic priests to break the seal of confession. The law ...

The State arguably could have chosen a less restrictive means of advancing its interest in protecting children from abuse and ...