Boy Scouts to Address Impact of Supreme Court’s Purdue Ruling

The Boy Scouts of America must provide briefing on how the US Supreme Court’s recent decision about Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy will affect a pending appeal of the youth organization’s sex abuse litigation settlement.

The Monday order comes from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which is considering an appeal of the Boy Scouts’ bankruptcy plan that creates a $2.46 billion trust created to compensate tens of thousands of people who say they were sexually abused as children by troop leaders. The organization emerged from bankruptcy last year after a Delaware judge approved the deal, but the appeal ...