A San Jose-based legal team is urging adults who survived sexual abuse as children to come forward and pursue civil lawsuits against their abusers before the legal window closes in California.
Assembly Bill 218, approved in 2020, gave all childhood sexual assault survivors more time to sue their abusers and the institutions that enabled them, regardless of how old they are now. The three-year extension comes to an end on Dec. 31.
For example, the firm's sexual abuse legal team took on two high-profile cases involving sports coaches at Los Gatos and Valley Christian high schools. In March, a Santa Clara County jury awarded another two women $102 million for the years of abuse they endured by a Union School District middle school band teacher, Samuel Neipp.
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