A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected calls to overturn the Boy Scouts of America's $2.46 billion sex abuse settlement, saying the appeals came too late to upend the settlement because the youth organization had already emerged from bankruptcy two years ago.

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a divided ruling involving two sets of insurers challenging the Boy Scouts of America’s $2.46 billion sexual abuse settlement. The court rejected one group’s objections while siding with another on specific contract rights.

The Boy Scouts of America’s bankruptcy reorganization plan and $2.46 billion child sex abuse settlement has advanced too far to be unwound, a federal appeals court ruled.

Lamenting that no amount of money could ever outweigh “the abuse claimants have suffered,” the court shot down the appeal of a small fraction of sexual abuse victims who appealed the plan’s terms.

Over a three-day period last week, 174 former Boy Scouts filed sex abuse lawsuits against the six, mid-level councils that oversee hundreds of troops, patrols, packs and dens throughout Maryland. Accusing generations of scout leaders,