Judge grants San Diego Diocese's motion to dismiss bankruptcy

Published: 2007-11-07

SAN DIEGO (CNS) -- The San Diego Diocese said Nov. 1 it was grateful Judge Louise DeCarl Adler granted its motion to dismiss its bankruptcy case. "This gets us one step closer to implementing the terms of the global settlement agreement," it said in a statement released the same day as the ruling. On Sept. 7 the San Diego Diocese and the San Bernardino Diocese, which was split off from its southern neighbor in 1978, announced an agreement to pay $198.1 million to settle lawsuits with 144 people for abuse suffered between 1938 and 1993. "Nevertheless, it is extremely disappointing that the presumption continues, as if it were a conclusion, that the assets of nondiocesan Catholic institutions and parishes are available to the diocese for the financial resolution of the sexual abuse cases," the diocese said Nov. 1. "This issue was not resolved in the bankruptcy proceeding," it added.

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