Judge orders parties in diocese bankruptcy case into mediation

MEW MEXICO
Gallup Independent

Published in the Gallup Independent, Gallup, N.M., April 28, 2015

By Sherry Robinson
Independent correspondent

ALBUQUERQUE — U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge David T. Thuma Monday ordered into mediation 10 parties to the Diocese of Gallup bankruptcy reorganization.

Retired bankruptcy Judge Randall J. Newsome, who has offered to mediate at no fee, will set the time and location of the mediation but it will begin no later than July 15, the order said.

The parties ordered to participate are the diocese, the unsecured creditors committee, New Mexico Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association, The Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America, The Catholic Relief Insurance Company of America, Province of St. John The Baptist of the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans), Sacred Heart Cathedral in Gallup, St. John the Baptist in St. Johns, Catholic Peoples Foundation (a diocese fund-raising arm), and St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and…