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	Contempt Motion Sought against Diocese WJZ June 16, 2010 http://wjz.com/wireapnewsmd/Creditors.committee.of.2.1755135.html The official committee of unsecured creditors in the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington's bankruptcy case wants the judge to hold the diocese in contempt of court. The committee, made up of alleged survivors of priest sexual abuse, argues in an emergency motion filed Tuesday that the diocese violated bankruptcy rules and the judge's orders by filing a brief in a state Supreme Court case. The Supreme Court case involves a challenge to the constitutionality of a 2007 law that created a two-year window in which lawsuits previously barred by the passage of time could be filed by victims of alleged child sexual abuse. The diocese filed a brief earlier this month in the Supreme Court supporting a religious order's challenge to the 2007 law. An attorney for the diocese says there is no basis for the contempt motion and no merit to the legal arguments behind it.
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