The Supreme Court has refused to intervene in a lawsuit regarding allegations that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops misled donors about the purposes of an annual donation.
In an order list issued Tuesday morning, the high court declined a petition for a writ of certiorari in the case of USCCB v. David O’Connell, with the order noting that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did not take part in the proceedings.
The decline of the petition allows a lower court ruling against USCCB’s effort to use the church autonomy legal argument to dismiss the class action lawsuit to stand.
