But last week, Maine's highest court deemed the transformational 2021 law unconstitutional. Elizabeth Ward Saxl, who directs the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, said the ruling was a shock.

The highest court in Maine ruled Tuesday against a law that retroactively removed the statute of limitations for civil child sexual abuse lawsuits, concluding a tense chapter in a yearslong legal ...

Maine had already removed the time limit on all future claims 20 years earlier. But last week, Maine's highest court deemed the transformational 2021 law unconstitutional. Elizabeth Ward Saxl, who ...

The Maine Supreme Court ruling upholding the statute of limitations fails to give appropriate weight to the difficulty of disclosure. After 37 years of working with victims of child sexual abuse ...

Maine’s highest court has shot down a 2021 law that allowed people to file lawsuits over claims of child sex abuse, regardless of when the abuse was alleged to have occurred. State lawmakers ...

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s 5-2 decision in Robert E. Dupuis v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland found that an expired statute of limitations timeframe amounts to a “vested right ...

Jan. 28—Maine's highest court has shot down a 2021 law that allowed people to file lawsuits over claims of child sex abuse, regardless of when the abuse was alleged to have occurred. State lawmakers ...