"Documents in the bankruptcy indicate the church had been counting on the law being struck down to drastically limit – if not altogether eliminate – its liability in the vast majority of abuse claims."

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"In 2021, Louisiana’s state legislature removed that prohibition and temporarily allowed the pursuit of those claims in civil court no matter how many years earlier the abuse had occurred. The state’s supreme court upheld the law as constitutional in June 2024, though allies of the archdiocese had tried to get it struck down."

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"Roughly 600 survivors of the clergy molestation scandal that drove the New Orleans Catholic archdiocese into bankruptcy have secured the opportunity to collectively be paid $305m after attorneys for the victims and the church’s largest insurer struck a deal Monday, according to some of the lawyers."

~ Ramon Antonio Vargas and David Hammer

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theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d…

New Orleans Catholic clergy abuse survivors in line to collectively be paid $305m

Attorneys for the victims struck deal with the church’s largest insurer to increase $230m settlement approved earlier

^{Ramon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)}