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	Diocese Fighting to Keep Court Records Closed By Bill Morlin Spokesman Review [Spokane] May 10, 2007 https://secure1.spokesmanreview.com/onlinesub/processCard.aspx?id=4 Attorneys for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane filed legal documents Wednesday in an attempt to block The Spokesman-Review from gaining public access to court records listing priest-abusers and damage claims expected to be paid as part of a $48 million bankruptcy settlement. The newspaper lacks "clean hands" and legal standing to ask a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge to release the individual settlement amounts to be set by an independent claims reviewer, diocese attorney Shaun Cross said in a 14-page motion. Allowing the newspaper access to the "confidential information" at this point also would "require modification" of the bankruptcy settlement plan, unanimously approved by the victim-claimants after a "lengthy and intense negotiation," Cross said.
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