Legal Opinion
Hoult v. Hoult
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 9, 1998No. 97-2000PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
In July 1988, when she was 27 years old, Jennifer Hoult brought suit in the district court against her father, David Hoult, alleging assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and breach of fiduciary duty. To support these claims, she alleged that her father had sexually abused, raped and threatened her from the time that she was about four years old until she was about sixteen years old.
The statute of limitations presented an obvious obstacle. Jennifer Hoult sought to overcome it by showing that the alleged abuse caused her to repress her memory…
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