Clergy abuse survivors who were ousted from a committee trying to negotiate a settlement resolving the New Orleans Catholic archdiocese’s bankruptcy say they have lost their confidence in the judge presiding over the case.
Their comments come after it was revealed that Judge Meredith Grabill ignored federal justice department recommendations against expelling the survivors from the group, delivering the latest twist in a child sexual abuse scandal roiling one of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the US.
