Boy Scouts Beat Bankruptcy Plan Appeal Over Liability Shield (3)

The Boy Scouts of America’s bankruptcy reorganization plan and $2.46 billion child sex abuse settlement has advanced too far to be unwound, a federal appeals court ruled.

A trust established to administer the largest child sex abuse settlement in US history can continue its work distributing funds to about 82,000 abuse survivors without pause, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held Tuesday.

The appeals court, in a majority opinion penned by Judge Cheryl Ann Krause, said it would decline a small group of abuse claimants’ “invitation to reverse the Confirmation Order at this late stage and will ...