NEW ORLEANS — A group of attorneys representing clergy abuse survivors is ramping up pressure to get New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond under oath before a judge decides whether to kick the church out of bankruptcy.
Lawyers for dozens of survivors filed a motion Wednesday to end the church’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a day before the fifth anniversary of a case that’s paid none of about 500 survivors but has cost the archdiocese around $45 million in legal and professional fees.
The survivors’ request to dismiss the bankruptcy also comes a day after the federal bankruptcy judge overseeing the case, Meredith Grabill, ordered the archdiocese to appear in court on June 26 to show why she shouldn’t simply end the bankruptcy…