Boy Scouts Battles Bid to Upend Bankruptcy Plan in Third Circuit

The Boy Scouts of America urged a federal appeals court to uphold a record-setting $2.46 billion sex abuse settlement, warning of immense harm to the organization and thousands of abuse survivors if the bankruptcy deal is unwound.

The Boy Scouts’ Chapter 11 plan, which established the largest child sex abuse settlement in US history, was subject to a close inspection Wednesday in the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit over features that terminated the rights of roughly 82,000 abuse claimants to sue third parties involved in scouting activities. A panel of judges pressed the lawyers to explain what ...