Attorney General Josh Stein’s state Justice Department backs the General Assembly in a legal dispute targeting the SAFE Child Act. The state Supreme Court will decide whether the act violated the constitution by reopening a window to file child sexual abuse lawsuits.
The North Carolina School Boards Association supports the Gaston County school board’s appeal in a state Supreme Court case tied to the SAFE Child Act. The local school board wants the high court to overturn a decision that upheld the act as constitutional.
Eight days after a split state Court of Appeals panel upheld North Carolina's SAFE Child Act as constitutional, the Gaston County school board is appealing that decision to North Carolina’s highest court. The Gaston school board is a defendant in McKinney v. Goins, a case challenging the 2019 Safe Child Act as unconstitutional.
The state Court of Appeals has split, 2-1, in upholding North Carolina’s 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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