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	New Mexico Court: Child Abuse Reporting Laws Did Not Apply to Pastor’s Testimony April 2022	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Defamation Claim Dismissed Due to Church’s “Qualified Privilege” March 2022	Confidential and Privileged Communications; Defamation
	Sexual Abuse Conviction Upheld Despite the Defendant’s Claim His Pastor Broke Privilege January 2022	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Pastor’s Conversation with the Defendant Allowed in Murder Case March 2021	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Pastor Allowed to Testify at a Man’s Sexual Abuse Trial March 2021	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Defendant's Meeting with Pastor Was Not for Spiritual Advice October 2020	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	A Murder Confession to a Pastor Not Considered Privileged September 2020	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Pastor’s Multiple Acts of Sexual Misconduct Not Necessarily Protected by First Amendment March/April 2019	Confidential and Privileged Communications; Sexual Misconduct by Clergy, Lay Employees, and Volunteers
	Clergy-Penitent Privilege Not Applicable to a Conversation with a Church Elder March/April 2019	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Compelling Priest to Disclose Confidential Information Violated Religious Freedom Restoration Act March/April 2019	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Murder Suspect's Statements to Church Employee Not Privileged September/October 2018	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	First Amendment Religion Clauses Prohibit Court from Resolving Confidential Communications Claim May/June 2018	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Clergy-Penitent Privilege May Not Protect Church Elders Who Did Not Report Child Abuse Case March/April 2017	Child Abuse Reporting; Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Incriminating Statements Made to Pastor Not Confidential Due to Public Setting, Retelling to Others January/February 2017	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Lay Bible Study Leader Successfully Invokes Clergy-Penitent Privilege November/December 2016	Confidential and Privileged Communications; Counseling
	Author's Identity of Anonymous Letter Not Protected by Clergy-Penitent Privilege November/December 2016	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	‘Spiritual Adviser’ Limits of Clergy-Penitent Privilege Outlined by Massachusetts Court Ruling July/August 2016	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Federal Court Notes Limits and Protections of Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege and Clergy-Penitent Privilege May/June 2016	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Clergy-Penitent Privilege Invalid in Murder Case November/December 2012	Confidential and Privileged Communications
	Conversations Shouldn't Have Been Used for Prosecution September/October 2011	Confidential and Privileged Communications
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