Milwaukee Bankruptcy judge orders archdiocese, victims into 'meaningful' settlement talks - JSOnline

Appears to be small victory for the victims.

The bankruptcy creditors committee, composed of church sex abuse victims, has asked the judge to order a global mediation that would include the archdiocese, victims, insurers, and parishes and religious orders named in sex abuse claims.

The archdiocese, which is seeking to throw out a number of those claims, called mediation premature, saying its claims objections should be decided first. It argued that parishes and religious orders are separate legal entities from the archdiocese; and that global mediation, like those conducted in some of the other church bankruptcies around the country, would be unwieldy.

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