Hardwicke v. American Boychoir School

For about two years, from the fall of 1969 to April 1971, John W. Hardwicke was a boarding student at the American Boyehoir School (the Boyehoir School or School)1 in Princeton, New Jersey. Hardwicke was twelve years old when he arrived, and forty-three years old in 2001 when he filed suit against the Musical Director Donald Hanson, the School, and persons connected with the School and Hanson, claiming that he had been repeatedly sexually abused by Hanson and others, and that the School knew, or should have known, of the abuse.

The trial court held that only natural persons are potentially…