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Two Recent Rulings by the Ohio Supreme Court

12-Year Time Limit for Filing Child Sexual Abuse Suits Does Not Stop Running Based on Repressed Memories

Limitations Period Begins to Run on Victim's 18^th Birthday

 

From the site: "2009-0953.  Pratte v. Stewart, Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-1860.

...Opinion: http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2010/2010-Ohio-1860.pdf

 

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The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled today that 2006 legislation unambiguously sets a 12-year statute of limitations (time limit) for the filing of civil lawsuits based on childhood sexual abuse that occurred after the Aug. 3, 2006 effective date of that legislation and applies that same 12-year limitations period to the filing of suits based on abuse that occurred prior to Aug. 3, 2006, if no prior claim has been filed and if the limitations period under the previous version of the law had not expired before the new law took effect..."

 

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Court Rules Nurse Does Not Hold 'Position of Trust' That Would Bar Her From Intervention Program

For First Offense Theft of Drugs from Hospital Where She Was Employed

 

From the site: "2009-0825.  State v. Massien, Slip Opinion No. 2010-Ohio-1864.

...Opinion: http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2010/2010-Ohio-1864.pdf

 

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...The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled today that a nurse employed in a hospital, who steals drugs in the course of her employment, does not occupy a "position of trust" and is not categorically ineligible for Intervention in Lieu of Conviction (ILC)..."

 

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Source of both: The Supreme Court of Ohio, 5 May 2010

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 06, 2010 (boomark / email).