BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- The New York State Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit from a group of Western New York parishioners on Friday that was seeking to stop the diocese from using parish funds towards a $150 million settlement with child sex abuse survivors.

Parishioners named in the lawsuit attend Blessed Sacrament in Tonawanda, Our Lady of Peace in Clarence, St. Bernadette in Orchard Park, St. Aloysius Gonzaga in Cheektowaga and St. John XXIII in West Seneca.

Judge John Delmonte denied the plaintiffs' motion, citing the 1st and 14th amendments of the U.S. Constitution, dismissing the lawsuit without prejudice.

"The unique character of this action ... inexorably overwhelms all other issues and compels a review of the threshold issue of whether this Court has any measure of jurisdictio

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