April 15, 2024
A Catholic diocese on New York's Long Island has asked a bankruptcy judge to dismiss its Chapter 11 case, noting the debtor's latest reorganization proposal was voted down by a "supermajority" of its creditors.
February 15, 2024
A New York bankruptcy judge said Thursday the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre had sufficiently explained its Chapter 11 plan to creditors, but appeared skeptical that it will garner the necessary votes for approval.
February 08, 2024
A New York bankruptcy judge sent the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre's Chapter 11 plan disclosures and voting procedures back for another round of rewrites Thursday, while urging it and representatives of sexual abuse claimants into talks.
January 16, 2024
A New York bankruptcy judge told the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre on Tuesday that it needed to rewrite its Chapter 11 plan disclosure to make it comprehensible to the sexual abuse claimants in the case.
November 21, 2023
The unsecured creditors' committee in the Chapter 11 case of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre asked a New York bankruptcy judge to pause the bankruptcy proceedings and allow a handful of sex abuse claims to go forward in state court litigation to uncover the full extent of the diocese's financial exposure.
October 27, 2023
A New York bankruptcy judge has signed off on a real estate deal that will net the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre $16 million for its sex abuse survivors trust and lay to rest creditors' allegations that before it filed for Chapter 11 protection, the diocese fraudulently transferred more than 200 acres of valuable waterfront land to an affiliated seminary.
October 23, 2023
A bankrupt New York diocese is running out of time to file a consensual Chapter 11 plan, with a court hearing Monday yielding no apparent truce with creditors over hundreds of sexual abuse claimants after mediation failed.
October 19, 2023
The mediators in the Chapter 11 case of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre have told a New York bankruptcy judge that negotiations with sexual abuse claimants are deadlocked and unlikely to produce a reorganization plan by the judge's Halloween deadline.
October 02, 2023
A New York bankruptcy judge Monday denied a request from the committee of unsecured creditors of the bankrupt Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre to sue the diocese's insurers, saying the suit would be a "hopeless filing" that seeks to prevent a settlement between the diocese and its insurers that has not and "may never" be inked.
September 26, 2023
A New York bankruptcy judge Tuesday granted a discovery request from the committee of unsecured creditors of the bankrupt Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, allowing the committee to find out whether one insurer of the diocese is financially solvent enough to indemnify the diocese's abuse claimants.