Noticing Error Derails Efforts to Open Two-Year Window Reviving Time-Barred Sexual Abuse Claims in Pennsylvania

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

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