DOE v. SAINT JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH

313 Ga. 558

FINAL COPY S21G0549. DOE v. SAINT JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC CHURCH et al. COLVIN, Justice. In December 2018, Philip Doe filed suit against Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church, Archbishop Wilton Gregory, and the Archdiocese of Atlanta (collectively, “the Church”), asserting various tort claims based in part on childhood sexual abuse Doe allegedly suffered while serving as an altar boy at Saint Joseph’s in the late 1970s.1 The trial court granted the Church’s motion to dismiss, ruling, in pertinent part, that Doe’s “non-nuisance tort claims” were barred by the applicable two-year statute of…