Boy Scouts of America

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August 18, 2025
Six Firms Get $146M In Fees In Boy Scouts Ch. 11

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved more than $146 million in fees sought by six law firms in Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11, overruling a request from the U.S. Trustee's Office to trim $3.3 million off the bills.
July 03, 2025
Boy Scouts Of America Distributed $164M To Claimants So Far

Boy Scouts of America has so far transferred nearly $164 million to sexual abuse survivors, according to a monthly report released by the organization's settlement trust.
June 16, 2025
23andMe Names New Buyer, Pa. Retirees Sue Over Ch. 9 Sale

Retired employees of a Philadelphia suburb filed a lawsuit to open the sale of municipal water systems to private operators in Chester, Pennsylvania's Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy. 23andMe said it selected a nonprofit created by its co-founder to buy the consumer genetic testing company's assets, replacing a pharmaceutical developer that won a Chapter 11 auction. And Jackson Walker, one of its former attorneys and a former bankruptcy judge are facing a proposed class action, the latest fallout from a 2023 ethics scandal in Texas.
June 13, 2025
3rd Circ. Won't Rehear Bid To Toss Boy Scouts' Ch. 11 Plan

The Third Circuit declined to hold a panel or full court rehearing of its May decision to uphold the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan in a pair of Friday orders rejecting petitions by two sets of abuse survivors, with the orders implying some judges on the court had supported taking another look.
June 05, 2025
Under The Radar: Bankruptcy News You May Have Missed

A technology platform for startups is hoping to mediate a string of legal disputes with a creditor and former business partner in its Chapter 11. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to enforce the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 channeling injunction, saying it has been forced to defend itself from released claims. And ExxonMobil objected to a biofuel startup's Chapter 11 auction proposal, asserting that it has rights to certain intellectual property up for sale.
May 14, 2025
Why Boy Scout Releases Were OK Despite Failing Purdue Test

The Third Circuit's rejection of challenges to third-party releases in the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan may appear at odds with the U.S. Supreme Court's Purdue decision last year, but the panel said the already enacted plan can't be undone even if it couldn't pass muster today, experts told Law360.
May 13, 2025
3rd Circ. Upholds Most Of Boy Scouts' Ch. 11 Plan

The Third Circuit upheld the bulk of the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan to deal with thousands of childhood sex abuse claims, but agreed Tuesday with one objecting insurer that its rights were impermissibly altered under the plan.
May 09, 2025
Del. Judge Allows Late Survivor Claim In Boy Scouts Ch. 11

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has ruled a former Boy Scout's claim of repressed memories of sexual abuse is a valid reason for missing a deadline to apply for damages from the trust established in the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 case.
March 27, 2025
Boy Scouts Claimants Lose Appeal To Fix Ch. 11 Opt-In Error

A Delaware federal judge has upheld a bankruptcy court order that childhood sexual abuse survivors who accidentally opted in for a quicker, smaller payment over their claims could not undo that mistake in the Boy Scouts' Chapter 11.
November 12, 2024
3rd Circ. Weighs Boy Scouts Ch. 11, Calif. AG Balks At Fee Bid

The Third Circuit heard arguments on Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan from sexual abuse survivors as well as insurers, California's attorney general disputed Sullivan & Cromwell's fee requests in Kidde-Fenwal Inc.'s bankruptcy, and the U.S. trustee is seeking documents from Jackson Walker LLP regarding a former attorney's secret relationship with a bankruptcy judge. This is the week in bankruptcy.

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