Settlement hearings planned for Oregon abuse suit

PORTLAND, Ore. — Settlement hearings are planned this week for a $25 million lawsuit that claims the LDS Church and the Boy Scouts failed to protect six boys from a man who was eventually convicted of sex abuse.U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan and retired Lane County Circuit Judge Lyle Velure plan hearings Wednesday through Friday.They presided over the settlement of a similar lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland last year.The hearings this week are on a lawsuit that alleges abuse in the 1980s and early '90s by a former Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Sunday school teacher who was also a Scout leader. He was convicted of sexually abusing children and sent to prison.