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I, sec. 9; U.S. Const. art. I, sec. 10; U.S. Const. amend. XIV. Stogner v. California, 539 U.S. 607 (2003), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which held that California 's retroactive extension of the statute of limitations for sexual offenses committed against minors was an unconstitutional ex post facto law.
This bill would eliminate the 10-year statute of limitations in California for felony sexual offenses of rape, sodomy, lewd or lascivious acts, continuous sexual abuse of a child, oral copulation, and sexual penetration. The bill has support from Gloria Allred, the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office and others. [350]
I; Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1746–1746.5 (2009) Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, 564 U.S. 786 (2011), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court that struck down a 2005 California law banning the sale of certain violent video games to children without parental supervision. In a 7–2 decision, the Court affirmed the lower court ...
Doe's lawsuit was filed under California's Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act, which allowed civil suits to be filed for cases of sexual assault even if they were beyond the statute of ...
Valentino’s lawsuit was filed under a new California law that created a window of time in which adult victims of sexual assault can file for civil damages even if the statute of limitations has ...
In July 2003 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville paid $25.7 million to "settle child sexual-abuse allegations made in 240 lawsuits naming 34 priests and other church workers." [ 8] In 2003, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston settled a large case for $85 million with 552 alleged victims.
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ValorUS, formerly the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault(CALCASA), is a nonprofitmembership association of rape crisis centersand sexual assaultprevention programs in the State of California, in the United States. CALCASA is the only statewide organization in California whose sole purpose is to promote public policy, advocacy, training ...