CHICAGO (IL)
Law360
By Lance Duroni
Law360, Chicago (June 02, 2014, 4:02 PM ET) — Lawyers for priest abuse victims in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s bankruptcy told the Seventh Circuit on Monday that a federal judge who barred them from going after a $60 million trust set up for Catholic cemeteries had a conflict of interest and should have recused himself.
U.S. District Judge Rudolph T. Randa — who ruled last year that the cemetery trust was off-limits to archdiocese creditors — has nine close relatives, including his parents, buried in the cemeteries, presenting a conflict in a case that could…
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