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Court Appears Unlikely to Overturn Settlement

November 13, 2024 9:57 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

Nov 6 (Reuters) - 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.

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