Colorado Supreme Court strikes down child sexual abuse law that allowed lawsuits over abuse from decades ago
JURIST
JUNE 22, 2023
The court held that the CSAAA is unconstitutionally retrospective because it creates a new cause of action for conduct that predated the act and would have been time-barred by the claim’s statute of limitation. It is based on Article I Section 9 of the US Constitution , which prevents Congress from passing these laws.
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