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Judge Confirms Plan Settling Montana Clergy Sex-Abuse Claims

The Spokesman-Review

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A Spokesman-Review report, published 5 March 2015, on U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Terry L. Myers' confirmation the day before of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena's Chapter 11 reorganization plan, detailing the roughly 20 million dollar victim trust, its funding from insurers and the Ursuline Sisters, and the more than 360 abuse claims it resolves.

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Reliability Tier
2
Reliability tier 2: a regional daily newspaper's contemporaneous account of the court's confirmation, its dollar figures and the judge's own remarks, corroborated by the Helena Independent Record's local coverage of the same plan.
Notes
Tier 2: the source for the confirmation date, the judge's name and remarks, the trust's funding composition and the roughly 20 million dollar total, cross checked against the Helena Independent Record's own reporting on the plan.
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Publisher
The Spokesman-Review
Publication Year
2015
URL
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/mar/05/judge-confirms-plan-settling-montana-clergy-sex/
Source Type
news
Claims Backed By This Source (19 claims)

This source backs 19 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 12 claims: 7 well-attested, 4 connected, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.

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4

Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies

General References

1

Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies

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