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Article: SUIT AGAINST LOUISVILLE ARCHDIOCESE DISMISSED \ JUDGE RULES CASE WAS FILED TOO LATE.(News)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2003
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Byline: Associated Press
LOUISVILLE -- A judge has dismissed one of the remaining sexual-abuse lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Louisville, ruling that it was filed too late.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Stephen Ryan said Tonya Blatz Francis filed the lawsuit May 14, a month too late for the statute of limitations allowed under Kentucky law.
The archdiocese has argued that the legal window to file lawsuits extends one year beyond April 2002, when the first of more than 200 lawsuits was publicized.
Church officials are using the same argument in the nine remaining lawsuits filed since April, said Edward Stopher, an attorney for the ...