Starnes v. Cayouette

SENIOR JUSTICE POFF

delivered the opinion of the Court.

We awarded a plaintiff, an adult survivor of child abuse, an appeal to consider whether, as the trial court ruled, the expiration of the statute of limitations on her personal injury cause of action afforded the defendant a right protected by constitutional due process guarantees. The trial court dismissed the motion for judgment, and we look to the facts alleged in the pleadings. The chronology of events is vitally relevant to our analysis of the issue before us.

Plaintiff Marjorie Starnes was born in 1964. From the age of five until she…