RALEIGH, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - A North Carolina appeals court had the power to allow a YMCA chapter to mount a constitutional challenge to a law that extended the statute of limitations for childhood sex-abuse victims, the state’s highest court ruled, rejecting arguments a strong dissent provided grounds to reverse the appeals court’s order.
A 2019 law intended to help victims of child sex abuse sue the people who abused them — and the organizations that allowed it to happen — is unconstitutional, a
RALEIGH, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - A North Carolina YMCA chapter will get another chance to challenge the application of a law extending the statute of limitations for sexual abuse lawsuits after a court of appeals rejected an attempt to put the question before a three-judge panel the legislature created to decide the constitutionality of state laws.
Three superior court judges held a hearing in Wake County to determine if a state law that allows victims of child sexual abuse to file civil claims is constitutional. Whatever