September 25, 2025
A New York bankruptcy judge agreed on Thursday to table a request by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, New York, to hire Jones Day for help working out legal issues related to a nonprofit, as the debtor races to propose a Chapter 11 plan by Oct. 1 to support a $272.5 million settlement.
June 18, 2025
The Roman Catholic diocese in Buffalo, New York, was ordered to use only a share of proceeds from the sale of a seminary building for a settlement with sexual abuse survivors. Meanwhile, a charter school funding company asked a bankruptcy judge to approve its speedy Chapter 11 sale process. And bankrupt electric-vehicle maker Nikola Corp. requested more time to draft its liquidation plan.
April 22, 2025
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday announced it has reached a $150 million agreement in principle that would settle the diocese's liability for about 900 claims of child sexual abuse.
January 14, 2025
A New York bankruptcy judge has told the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo and its creditors they have until September to come up with a plan to settle the diocese's liability for approximately 900 claims of child sex abuse.
November 28, 2023
A New York bankruptcy judge vowed Tuesday to preserve legal protections for the nondebtor parishes of the bankrupt Diocese of Buffalo, New York, saying sexual abuse claimants would be barred from pursuing legal action against them while mediation continues this week.
October 16, 2023
The official committee of unsecured creditors of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo told a New York bankruptcy judge Monday that an examination of the debtor's insurers is necessary to move the Chapter 11 case forward after more than three years.
September 21, 2023
The unsecured creditors in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo's Chapter 11 case asked a New York bankruptcy judge Thursday for permission to subpoena insurance companies for decades-old policy information the diocese says it can't find itself.
September 11, 2023
The Diocese of Buffalo has asked a New York federal bankruptcy judge to sanction a Brooklyn-based lawyer for allegedly violating an automatic stay order in the organization's Chapter 11 case by continuing to prosecute a sex abuse lawsuit in state court.
November 08, 2022
A New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday allowed the Diocese of Buffalo to join the sexual abuse claims settlement for diocese-sponsored Boy Scout troops in the Boy Scouts of America's Chapter 11 plan.