Noticing Error Derails Efforts to Open Two-Year Window Reviving Time-Barred Sexual Abuse Claims in Pennsylvania
By EsqSocial Corporation 02/02/21
On Monday, February 1, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced that due to the failure of the office of the Pennsylvania Secretary of State to publish a required notice, the Pennsylvania legislature will not be able to go forward with a bill that would have sent to the voters a state constitutional amendment opening a two-year window for victims of childhood sexual abuse to bring civil actions previously barred by the statute of limitations. The error led to the resignation of Secretary of...
By: White and Williams LLP