U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews has ruled the Boy Scouts of America may continue distributing a $2.46 billion trust among sex abuse claimants, denying motions to stay plan implementation until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on another bankruptcy plan with similar releases.

Andrews wrote while there is a possibility the outcome of the Purdue Pharma case set to go before SCOTUS in September could have an effect on the legitimacy of nonconsensual third-party releases present in both bankruptcy plans, any benefit that might come from staying the BSA plan is far outweighed by the uncertainty and damage to claimants a stay would cause.

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