SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court on Thursday said brothers who claim they were abused by a priest as children in the ’70s are time-barred from bringing suit against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland.
The divided court in Quarry v. Doe 1, S171382, said under rules governing the statute of limitations for suits against third-party defendants in childhood sex abuse cases plaintiffs missed a one-year window of opportunity to bring claims. Chief Judge Tani Cantil-Sakauye, writing for the majority, found the plaintiffs’ claims had expired by 1998 at the latest, before a 2002 law change that extended the amount of time to sue certain third-party defendants like the Oakland diocese. The plaintiffs didn’t sue until 2007.
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