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Report: Boston Church Mulls Bankruptcy Move BOSTON (Reuters) - The Archdiocese of Boston is contemplating filing for bankruptcy protection to shield it from the estimated 450 clergy sexual abuse victims who have filed civil lawsuits against it, The Boston Globe reported on Sunday. Such a move by the archdiocese, which has been at the epicenter of a pedophilia scandal rocking the Roman Catholic church for almost a year, would be without precedent in the United States, the paper said. Filing for bankruptcy protection in federal court would halt action in the civil lawsuits against the archdiocese, would prevent new lawsuits from being brought against the church while it reorganizes its finances and would combine the hundreds of plaintiffs into a single group.....
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