Baltimore Archdiocese Fights Claimants’ Bankruptcy Dismissal Bid

The Archdiocese of Baltimore challenged a call to dismiss its bankruptcy from a committee representing clergy sex abuse claimants, calling it an attempt to “coerce a favorable result” in related litigation.

The committee is trying to employ a “tactical maneuver” in the event it loses in litigation over a charitable immunity defense against the abuse claims, the archdiocese said in a Monday objection filed in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland.

The committee and the archdiocese have been in litigation over the Maryland legal doctrine, which would shield the Catholic jurisdiction from paying any survivor claims that ...