Abuse Survivors Move to Dismiss Baltimore Archdiocese Bankruptcy

The Archdiocese of Baltimore should have its bankruptcy case dismissed if it’s protected by a charitable immunity doctrine from financial liabilities stemming from clergy abuse, a committee of sex abuse claimants said.

The archdiocese can’t sustain its two-year-old Chapter 11 case if it succeeds in shielding itself from any responsibility to pay legal damages on child sex abuse claims, an official committee of unsecured creditors said in a motion Wednesday to the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland.

The archdiocese and the court-appointed committee remain locked in litigation over the applicability of the Maryland legal doctrine, which would ...