Legal Opinion
R.L. v. Voytac
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 11, 2009No. A-61 September Term 2008PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Justice WALLACE, JR.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
At issue in this matter is the interpretation of the statute of limitations provision of the Child Sexual Abuse Act (the Act), N.J.S.A. 2A61B-1. The Act provides in relevant part that an action for child sexual abuse shall be brought within two years after the “reasonable discovery of the injury and its causal relationship to the act of sexual abuse.” N.J.S.A. 2A:61B-lb. Additionally, the Act provides for a tolling of the statute of limitations because of “the plaintiffs mental state, duress by the defendant, or any other equitable…
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