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March 19 (Westlaw Journals) – An alleged victim of priest sexual abuse in the 1950s has failed to convince a federal appeals court that he did not wait too long to make a claim for money damages against the bankruptcy estate of the archdiocese of Portland in Oregon.
Doe 150 v. Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon et al., No. 10-36126, 2012 WL 662207 (9th Cir. Mar. 1, 2012).
John Doe 150, as he is identified in court papers, had asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a federal judge’s ruling that his lawsuit is time-barred.
But the appeals panel agreed with the judge that the plaintiff either knew or should have known of his abuse prior to a Bankruptcy Court-imposed deadline for filing claims in the archdiocese’s Chapter 11 case.
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