MONTANA
Daily Reporter
By MATT VOLZ Associated Press
First Posted: May 28, 2014
HELENA, Montana — A federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday rejected a request by an order of nuns to bring the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena back into state court to share in any monetary judgment that goes against it in a pair of child sex-abuse lawsuits.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Terry Myers on Wednesday ruled against the Ursuline Sisters of the Western Province’s motion to lift a stay in legal proceedings granted to the diocese when it filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year.
The diocese’s bankruptcy reorganization is part of a $15 million settlement with hundreds of people who said they were sexually abused as children across western Montana from the 1940s to the 1970s by clergy and employees of the diocese and the order of nuns.
The lawsuits filed in 2011 include a combined 362 plaintiffs.
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