So, the emails are already in the hands of ALL the lawyers. The only question is whether they should be made public. As far as I can tell, the reason they want to make them public is to publicly besmirch the Saints. Aside from that, the question of public vs private will not affect the case. What's the point?
Why would a story about an NFL team PR department helping the church involving a priest accused of pedophilia be newsworthy and of interest to the public?
Does the public who pay to attend games and with time watching games have a vested interest and the public who willingly give to the church want to know why an NFL team was helping the church want access to the e-mails because of mean spirited besmirching?
Their is more than just the NFL team and Church on one side and the AP legal suit in play.
The 'special master' has her history of shady dealings where she took vast sums of money for little work is in charge of recommending whether or not the e-mails between the rich-power entities and who could easily pay off someone like Carolyn Gill-Jefferson who has taken money, a LOT of money.
Kids were sexually assaulted/raped. The Saints and church are fighting tooth-and-nail to keep the public from seeing the 267 e-mails exchanged between them. The AP had to file suit to make them public.
The New Orleans Saints did not have to use their PR team to help the church which has a lengthy history dating backs decades of hiding PEDOPHILIA.
Lets not ask the obvious questions like... How could that happen?
How could they get away with it.
In this case we want to know...
Why would an NFL team try to help them with the PR team?
Dave tells us that we shouldn't ask or we are besmirching the Saints.