A highly anticipated hearing on USA Gymnastics proposed $217 million settlement with sexual abuse survivors has been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Orange County (Calif.) Register reported. Judge Robyn L. Moberly of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District Indiana issued an indefinite continuance for the hearing originally scheduled for March 31. Judge Moberly also extended the period in which USA Gymnastics can file its chapter 11 reorganization plan to June 2 and the period it can solicit approval of that plan to July 28. “It is currently unknown when in-person testimony and argument will be safely heard in the courtroom,” Judge Moberly wrote. The hearing was on the 77-page disclosure statement USA Gymnastics filed with the court last month that outlined the organization’s widely criticized settlement proposal.
