Boy Scouts Urge Supreme Court Not to Freeze Bankruptcy Plan

The US Supreme Court should reject efforts to pause the Boy Scouts of America’s bankruptcy plan and the work of a $2.46 billion sex abuse settlement trust while it crafts a decision on the Purdue Pharma case, the organization argued.

Boy Scouts filed papers with the high court on Thursday evening in response to a Feb. 9 request by some abuse claimants who are seeking to unwind the nonprofit’s Chapter 11 plan, which went active last year. The abuse victims appealing the Boy Scouts bankruptcy plan, which established the largest sex abuse settlement in US history, say that the Supreme ...