Child Sex Abuse Claims: Statutes of Limitations & Revival

Legislatures have been making sweeping and dramatic changes to statutes of limitations for child sexual abuse. Some have eliminated them. Some have extended them. Some have changed or added new discovery tolling rules. Some have revived previously time-barred claims, either temporarily or permanently.  And more legislation is on the way. Cokato attorney Thomas James of the Law Office of Tom James in Minnesota unravels the complexities of these statutes, providing updated information about the current state of the law.

Course materials include a state-by-state summary  guide to applicable statutes of limitation, claim revival laws and discovery tolling rules, together with a compendium of the relevant statutory provisions.  

1.0 Standard CLE credit approved in Minnesota 

$40. 

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1.0 Standard CLE Credit approved in Minnesota (Event Code 405396)

• What is driving statute of limitations reform
• Potential claims
• Potential plaintiffs and defendants
• The applicable statute
• The applicable time period (age caps, numbers of years, hybrid and alternative measures, calculation methods)
• Accrual
• Tolling (childhood, delayed discovery, Covid-19, others)
• Statutes of ultimate repose
• Revival of expired claims (including revival windows and their open and close dates, and judicial rulings on constitutionality)
• Other potential time bars (notice-of-claim statutes, exhaustion of administrative remedies, claims against dissolved organizations, laches)

Written materials on the topics covered in the presentation prepared by attorney Thomas James, along with:

• Summary guide to the applicable limitations period, discovery tolling rules, and claim revival laws of each state
• Compendium of the text of relevant statutory provisions in each state and the U.S. Code