{"id":164662,"date":"2026-02-05T04:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164662\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T04:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:53:14","slug":"bankrupt-oakland-diocese-loses-bid-to-defer-attorney-fee-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164662\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankrupt Oakland Diocese Loses Bid to Defer Attorney Fee Payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese of Oakland, Calif. failed to convince a bankruptcy judge to defer payment of legal fees until the end of its Chapter 11 proceeding, which has been in a stalemate for months.<\/p>\n<p>The diocese\u2019s <a data-terminal-id=\"T9MXWWKGIFQ3\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/bankruptcy-law\/oakland-diocese-creditors-abuse-claimants-object-to-fee-deferral\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">request<\/a> to amend its interim compensation procedures to include a 100% monthly fee holdback, which would\u2019ve paused payments for lawyers whose fees are covered by the diocese\u2019s estate, was denied without prejudice during a Wednesday hearing by Judge William J. Lafferty of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for a committee representing around 350 sex abuse claimants are among those &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The diocese of Oakland, Calif. failed to convince a bankruptcy judge to defer payment of legal fees until&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[79601,71242,71669,79599,79600,32646,143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-164662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-appointment-of-bankruptcy-trustee","9":"tag-child-molestation","10":"tag-compensation-of-professionals-during-bankruptcy","11":"tag-debtor-asset-sales","12":"tag-emergences","13":"tag-mass-transit","14":"tag-oakland","15":"tag-oakland-headlines","16":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}