High Court Asked To Review Statute Of Limitations In University Sexual Abuse Case

Mealey's (April 5, 2023, 3:55 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Ohio university has requested that the U.S. Supreme Court review what it contends is an “extreme new ‘discovery rule’” for determining when Title IX claims accrue devised by a divided Sixth Circuit U.S Court of Appeals in conflict with other circuits that permitted several plaintiffs to assert Title IX claims against it based on conduct that occurred more than 20 years before they filed suit after the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court’s judgment dismissing the plaintiffs’ claims of sexual abuse by a university doctor as barred by the two-year statute of limitations....