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Appellate Practice

Feb. 14, 2009

Time Rule Doesn't Bar Abuse Cases, Panel Says

A state appeals panel has unanimously ruled that civil clergy abuse claims brought by six brothers against Catholic Church officials in Oakland can move forward and are not barred by time limits.

By Sandra Hernandez
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A state appeals panel has unanimously ruled that civil clergy abuse claims brought by six brothers against Catholic Church officials in Oakland can move forward and are not barred by time limits.

The case involves Terry Quarry and his five brothers, who sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland in 2007, alleging they were sexually abused decades earlier as children but did not realize that the abuse h...

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