"Judges are telling the church to stop wasting our time by coming here and trying to use the First Amendment to defend the indefensible," said Sylvia Demarest, a lawyer who won a $31 million sex abuse settlement from the Diocese of Dallas in 1997 and was studying Justice Krause's ruling yesterday.
It is unlikely that the Boston Archdiocese would literally go broke in connection with the $100 million sex abuse settlement.
Other variables considered in the analysis were sex, age, settlement size, health board of residence, previous history of cancer, and presentation (emergency hospital admission or not).
Top Sex Bias Settlements.
Here are the top class-action sex bias settlements over the past decade.
Statistical significant difference in the prevalence of the disease was found among Sub-districts, sex, re-settlement, sleeping outdoor and dog ownership (P < 0.05).
archdiocese, saddled with a reported $77 million in sex-abuse settlement claims, saw donations to its annual appeal plunge from $1.9 million in 2002 to $45,000 a year later.
Dioceses across the country, all of which may be land-rich and cash-poor, are counting pennies in order to pay sex abuse settlements.
In San Diego, diocesan leaders who filed for bankruptcy were rebuked by a judge for misrepresenting the local church's financial situation to parishioners being asked to help pay for sex-abuse settlements.
While the letter from Ms. Allred was mostly a narrative of a powerful man's pursuit of a woman for sex (after the settlement Ms. Fisher also stated that she and Mr. Hurd never had sexual relations), it also states that in March 2008, Mr. Hurd told Ms. Fisher that he was working on a deal to purchase Electronic Data Systems.
