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How bankruptcy can help USA Gymnastics and the Boy Scouts compensate more survivors

  • Written by Pamela Foohey, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University
Tom Stewart fought to bring the sexual abuse that he endured as a Boy Scout to light. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

USA Gymnastics and the Boy Scouts of America sex abuse scandals have rocked communities nationwide. Revelations regarding decades of the sexual abuse of children and long-running institutional failures to stop it are raising questions about...

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