PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Superior Court Judge Michael A. Silverstein has scheduled a hearing for 2 p.m. Friday on an emergency motion filed by The Legion of Christ to stay his decision unsealing court records in a lawsuit relating to a $60-million bequest that a now-dead devoutly Catholic woman in her 90's left to the scandal-ridden religious order.
Silverstein decided last fall that Gabrielle Mee's niece, Mary Lou Dauray, who has been challenging the distribution of her aunt's assets, has no standing to pursue her lawsuit, even though he said the Legion may have exerted undue influence on Mee to change her will and trusts.
But in a decision issued Wednesday, he ruled that now-sealed documents relating to his decision and the lawsuit should be open to the public scrutiny.