Mike Pfau has negotiated one of the largest single-plaintiff settlements – $1.1 million – in Washington state in the Catholic Church sex-abuse cases on behalf of a Skagit County man who was sexually abused years ago by a former Seattle Roman Catholic school principal.  The settlement was reached Oct. 23rd with the Seattle Archdiocese, which owns O'Dea and owns and operates St. Alphonsus School, and on Nov. 7th with the Congregation of Christian Brothers, which operates O'Dea.  The archdiocese and the Christian Brothers are each responsible for paying half of the $1.1 million.  Pfau, who was assisted by Darrell Cochran and Jason Amala, attributed the large settlement amount to the fact that "the abuse was significant" and to the number of witnesses who testified that the Christian Brothers and the archdiocese knew that Courtney was a problem and that people had complained about him.