Quarry v. Doe1 2/10/09 CA1/4

State: California

Court: 1st District Court of Appeal 1st District Court of Appeal

Docket No: A120048

Case Date: 06/11/2009

Preview:Filed 2/10/09

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION FOUR

TERRY QUARRY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. DOE 1, Defendant and Respondent.

A120048 (Alameda County Super. Ct. No. HG07313640)

Six brothers claim they were sexually abused by a Catholic priest in the 1970s, when they were children. They sued defendant Doe I in 2007 for damages due to adultonset psychological injuries allegedly caused by that abuse.1 When they sued, they ranged in age from 43 to 49. They alleged they did not discover until 2006 that the cause of their adulthood psychological injuries was the childhood sexual abuse. The Bishop demurred to the complaint. He argued that plaintiffs causes of action were barred under earlier limitations periods and that later expansions of the statute of limitations did not revive their lapsed claims. Plaintiffs contended that the current statute (Code Civ. Proc.,

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