High Court Vacates Alito Pause of Boy Scouts Bankruptcy Plan (1)

The US Supreme Court vacated an administrative stay that temporarily halted the Boy Scouts of America’s bankruptcy plan, allowing the resumption of payments from the largest sex abuse settlement in US history.

The high court, in a one-sentence order issued Thursday, reversed a Feb. 16 order by Justice Samuel Alito that had paused the work of a $2.46 billion trust created to compensate about 82,000 former scouts with child sex abuse claims. An application seeking to keep the bankruptcy plan on hold until the court rules on an appeal from the case of opioid maker Purdue Pharma LP is denied, ...