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  1. The Boy Scouts organization filed for bankruptcy in February 2020 in Delaware after several U.S. states enacted laws allowing people to sue over decades-old sex abuse allegations, prompting a wave of litigation that threatened the 113-year-old organization's continued existence.
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    Though legal hurdles remain, the ruling by Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein in Delaware marked an important milestone for the BSA, which sought bankruptcy protection more than two years ago to stave off a flood of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by Scout leaders and volunteers.
    When it filed for bankruptcy, the BSA faced about 275 filed lawsuits and was aware of numerous other potential cases. More than 80,000 abuse claims were eventually filed as part of the bankruptcy.
    The judge overseeing the Boy Scouts bankruptcy, Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein, said last week that she would continue to hear disputes related to the Boy Scouts settlement without waiting for the Supreme Court decision in Purdue Pharma, because the settlement had been finalized. Read more:
    Scouts subsequently scrapped the settlement, l eaving victims with claims against the church free to pursue them outside the bankruptcy. Central to the bankruptcy plan is a $2.46 billion trust fund for survivors — down from $2.7 billion without the contribution from the Mormon church.
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