Tyson v. Tyson

The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington has certified the following question of state law to this court: Does the discovery rule, which tolls the statute of limitations until the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered a cause of *74action, apply to intentional torts where the victim has blocked the incident from her conscious memory during the entire time of the statute of limitations? We answer the question in the negative.

The plaintiff here alleges that she was the victim of sexual abuse during her childhood. The parties have stipulated to the…