The Roman Catholic Diocese of Duluth, Minn., filed for bankruptcy Monday after being hit with an $8.4 million verdict in a clergy sex abuse case, Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review story via The Wall Street Journal. Last month, a jury awarded $8.4 million to a man who says he was sexually abused in the late 1970s by a priest serving in the Diocese of Duluth, which spans 10 counties in northeastern Minnesota.
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