IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON 

MARTIN VOE, an individual proceeding 

under a pseudonym, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF 

PORTLAND IN OREGON, AND 

SUCCESSORS, A CORPORATION SOLE, an 

Oregon Corporation, d/b/a ARCHDIOCESE OF 

PORTLAND IN OREGON; and ARCHDIOCESE 

OF PORTLAND IN OREGON, an Oregon 

Corporation, 

Defendants. 

MOSMAN, District Judge; 

BECKERMAN, Magistrate Judge. 

Case No. 3:14-cv-01016-SB 

OPINION AND 

ORDER 

Plaintiff Martin Voe ("Plaintiff') filed this action against the Roman Catholic Archbishop 

of Portland in Oregon, and successors, a corporation sole, dba Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon 

("the Archdiocese"), on June 24, 2014. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction over this action 

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pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1334(b), based on the relatedness of these proceedings to In re Roman 

Catholic Archbishop of Portland ("RCAP"), Case No. 04-37154, a case arising under Title 11 of the 

United States Code. Specifically, the Third Amended and Restated Joint Plan of Reorganization 

("the Plan") confirmed in RCAP sets a $20 million cap on the funds available to pay claims made 

against the Archdiocese through 2023. 

Currently before the Court is the Archdiocese's unopposed motion to approve the settlement 

ofPlaintiff's claims, and to approve payment from the Future Claims Trust. For the reasons set forth 

below, the Court grants the Archdiocese's unopposed motion, and approves the proposed settlement. 

The parties sought to resolve this matter through mediation in early December 2014, and 

were unsuccessful, but settlement negotiations continued thereafter. Following litigation, the parties 

informed the Court on March 18, 2015, that they had resolved the case. Ifthe Court approves the 

parties' settlement, Plaintiff will receive $525,000 from the Future Claims Trust. Pursuant to section 

6.4.5 of the Plan, the parties' settlement, and therefore payment to Plaintiff out of the Future Claims 

Trust, is subject to this Court's approval. 

Section 11.8 of the Plan requires that notice of any motion to approve a settlement subject 

to the Future Claims Trust be served upon: all plaintiffs with pending or otherwise unpaid claims 

against the Archdiocese and Archbishop, Future Claimants' Representative David A. Foraker, and 

Known Tort Claims Trustee and Future Claims Trustee Union Bank of California. Section 11 .8 also 

provides that all notified parties must be provided at least twenty days (plus an additional three days 

if notice is served by mail), to file objections, if any, to such motion. 

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On March 19, 2015, the Archdiocese served the required notice by mail on all of the 

necessary parties. The period for filing objections to the parties' proposed settlement expired on 

April 13, 2015. No objections were filed. 

In the absence of objection by any interested party, and in consideration of the proposed 

payment at issue relative to the amount remaining in the Future Claims Trust, the undersigned find 

no reason to deny approval of the parties' proposed settlement. Accordingly, the Court grants the 

Archdiocese's motion, and approves the proposed settlement. 

CONCLUSION 

For the reasons set forth above, the Court GRANTS the Archdiocese's unopposed motion 

to approve the settlement of Plaintiffs claims against the Archdiocese (ECF No. 47); approves the 

proposed settlement; and authorizes payment to Plaintiff in the amount of$525,000, from the Future 

Claims Trust. All pending motions, if any, are denied as moot. 

Dated this \~~ of April, 2015. 

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MVJ MICHAEL W. ~ MOS 

United States District Judge 

STACIE F.1ffiCKERMAN 

United States Magistrate Judge 

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