CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An attorney who helped design and implement the 9/11 victims’ compensation fund says New Hampshire lawmakers have eroded the fairness of a settlement program for those who were abused at the state’s youth detention center.

Deborah Greenspan, who served as deputy special master of the fund created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, recently submitted an affidavit in a class-action lawsuit seeking to block changes to New Hampshire’s out-of-court settlement fund for abuse victims. She was among those expected to testify Wednesday at a hearing on the state's request to dismiss the case and other matters, but the judge declined to allow her appearance, ruling it was not relevant at this stage of the proceedings.

More than 1,300 people have sued the state since 2020 allegi

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