New York's top court dismisses a Child Victims Act lawsuit due to insufficient details, raising questions about future cases ...

New York legislators are seeking changes to the Child Victims Act after the state’s top court dismissed a lawsuit due to ...

Lawyers said the state should be held just as accountable as the Catholic Church. They've since filed thousands of legal ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A lawsuit against New York alleging sexual abuse decades ago was tossed out by the state’s top court ...

ALBANY — Hundreds of claims filed under New York’s Adult Survivors Act and Child Victims Act may be in legal peril after the Court of Appeals on Tuesday threw out a case filed against the ...

A new ruling by the Court of Appeals dismissed a case of a man who claims he was sexually abused decades ago. The judge said ...

This recent lawsuit is the fourth against the school under Maryland's Child Victims Act, which became law in 2023, removing the statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases. The new 10-page ...

New York State persuaded the state’s highest court Tuesday to toss Child Victims Act claims from a man who says multiple state officials abused him over three decades ago.

The suit was filed under the Child Victims Act, a 2019 state law that temporarily allowed people to sue over sexual abuse they suffered long ago as children. The judges unanimously sided with the ...