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State Supreme Court rejects Gaston County schools’ SAFE Child Act appeal

North Carolina’s highest court will not take up the Gaston County school board’s appeal of a ruling upholding the SAFE Child Act as constitutional. The 2019 act opened a two-year window for victims of alleged child sexual abuse to pursue lawsuits years after they normally would have been barred from going to court.

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