MINNESOTA
Minnesota Public Radio
Martin Moylan
Oct 1, 2015
The federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis questioned the need for more legal and other professionals to resolve the case during a court hearing Thursday.
The legal bill for the bankruptcy is already about $3.6 million. Now, the archdiocese wants a firm hired to represent sex abuse victims who might file claims against the church in the future. The estimated cost is $150,000.
About 400 people filed abuse claims by an August deadline, but the archdiocese says some people could still come forward with legally viable claims of abuse that occurred before the church’s bankruptcy filing and could argue they were not subject to the August cutoff.
“They may be minors or have disabilities,” said archdiocese attorney Richard Anderson.
At the hearing, the archdiocese says it has been standard procedure in other church bankruptcies to appoint someone to represent such claimants.
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