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  Creditors Committee in Diocese Bankruptcy Case Seeks to Hire Law Firm

KWWL
January 24, 2007

http://www.kwwl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5982445&nav=2Ifu

Davenport, Iowa A creditors committee in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport bankruptcy case has asked the court for permission to hire a California law firm.

The firm represented several sexual abuse victims in the diocese in Spokane, Washington, who were recently awarded 48 (m) million dollars.

The committee, which is comprised of people who claim they were sexually abused by priests, will help decide how the Davenport dioceses distributes its assets.

The diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last fall.

The diocese's bankruptcy attorney has said the diocese would wait to file its reorganization plan until after the creditors committee hired an attorney.

 
 

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