One of the country’s top Catholic universities won a big victory earlier this year when a judge dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit brought by its former president. But for Seton Hall, the legal battle is far from over.
The university is best known for its acclaimed basketball program and its law school, whose alumni include federal judges, state lawmakers and two former governors. But lately, attention has focused on how the university’s new president, Monsignor Joseph Reilly, was elevated to the role despite a 2019 investigation that found he failed to properly report sexual abuse allegations when serving as a seminary leader at the school.
The university is now waging a campaign in New Jersey and California courts to extract information — and money — from the former president and a person the school believes leaked information about the investigation into alleged clergy abuse within its ranks.
It is the latest turn in a kind of cat-and-mouse game that’s unfolded for roughly 18 months amid the abuse scandal at the North Jersey-based university: Subpoenas issued, taunting emails and claims of reputational damage over the whole thing.
The details of the 2019 investigation — spurred by allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick — are now at the heart of Seton Hall’s efforts against its last president, Joseph Nyre, and Eric Spitz, a California businessperson and former newspaper co-owner suspected by school attorneys of “ongoing misuse” of “confidential and privileged materials,” according to court records. Lawyers for Seton Hall have subpoenaed Nyre and Spitz to sit for depositions, turn over documents and collectively pay upwards of $110,000, court records in California and New Jersey show.
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