A U.S. appeals court panel on Wednesday appeared unlikely to overturn the Boy Scouts of America’s $2.46 billion settlement of sex abuse claims, suggesting it would be impractical to upend the deal long after the youth organization emerged from bankruptcy.
A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia heard oral arguments in appeals of a 2022 bankruptcy court ruling approving the deal, which resolved the claims of 82,500 men who alleged that they were sexually abused by troop leaders as children.
The settlement has been challenged by 144 sex abuse survivors and a minority of the youth organization’s insurers. The abuse survivors have argued that they should be allowed to sue organizations, like local Boy Scouts councils and churches, that ran scouting programs where abuse occurred. Those organizations received immunity from lawsuits in exchange for contributions to the Boy Scouts’ bankruptcy settlement, despite not filing for…
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