DGS49
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Baltimore archdiocese declares bankruptcy ahead of Child Victims Act becoming law
America’s oldest Catholic archdiocese filed for bankruptcy Friday, a move designed to limit its liability against potential damages and conserve its assets, ahead of a mountain of soon-to-be …

Here goes the "search for justice."
We have people who claim to have been victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse a long, long time ago. In fact, the statute of limitations has lapsed on all of the cases in question. Apparently these people were asleep during now-decades long campaign for those exact people to come forward with their claims, so that they could seek "justice" in real time (we could have a whole other discussion on that point alone). But if they came forward earlier, it just might be the case that witnesses were available, accused perps could defend themselves, memories were clearer, and weak cases could be weeded out. Now, everyone is dead or senile, and claims can go without significant defense.
For the record, this is why we have statutes of limitation.
But whom are they going after now...it ain't pretty: They will be going after insurance companies, and the Catholic faithful who have paid into the collection boxes for the past hundred-plus years. The perpetrators are either dead or impecunious, or both. All of them. And everybody knows it.
We are told - and I don't doubt it - that there is a mountain of pending cases, lawyers & clients just salivating at the prospect of mining this bonanza, provided by the Maryland legislature.
Who wins? The lawyers, of course, many of whom are drinking buddies of the lawyers in the legislature.
While it's not a slam dunk, I hope that the petition for Chapter 11 is accepted. It would serve everyone right.