Doe v. Doe

Plaintiff appeals the grant of summary judgment in favor of the State of Vermont on the basis of sovereign immunity. Because the trial court did not allow an adequate opportunity for plaintiff to conduct discovery, we reverse.

The following facts are not in dispute. On December 13, 1991, defendant B. Doe, * a former high ranking employee at the Vermont Department of Travel and Tourism, was convicted of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, for sexually abusing plaintiff. The abuse began in the summer of 1989, when plaintiff was thirteen and continued until September 1991. On January 27,…