Legal Opinion
Jane Doe v. New London Community School District
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided June 20, 2014No. 13–0405PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Justice.
This case requires us to decide the timeliness of a lawsuit filed against a school district in 2012 alleging past sexual abuse. The abuse was alleged to have occurred when the plaintiff was a high school student in the early 2000s. The alleged abuser was a teacher who also served as the plaintiffs track coach.
The school district moved for summary judgment based on the statute of limitations in the pre-2007 Iowa Municipal Tort Claims Act. The district court denied the motion. We granted the district’s application for interlocutory appeal. We now reverse the district court,…
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