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Attorney should be disqualified for indemnification

Attorney should be disqualified for indemnification

Attorney should be disqualified for indemnification

An attorney who signed an agreement to indemnify the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago from claims related to a settlement of sex abuse cases should be disqualified from representing the claimants and others in suing the Archdiocese for additional damages, a federal magistrate judge in Chicago has ruled. The attorney sought to represent African American and Hispanic survivors of abuse in a suit claiming that the Archdiocese had violated their civil and constitutional rights by injecting “discriminatory conditions” into the mediation and settlement of their claims. The attorney filed suit on behalf of 73 individuals whom he had previously represented in settling with the Archdiocese, claiming...

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