Legal Opinion
DOE v. ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 2, 2021No. 2:20-cv-03024Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA JOHN DOE, : Plaintiff : CIVIL ACTION ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA, No. 20-3024 Defendant : MEMORANDUM PRATTER, J. MARCH 2, 2021 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once asked, ““What is the justification for depriving a man of his rights, a pure evil as far as it goes, in consequence of the lapse of time?”! He was speaking to the unavoidable tension between repose and vindication of rights created by statutes of limitation. Statutes of limitation, although foundational to our judicial system and applied by judges, are…
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