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SHEEHAN v. OBLATES OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES

No. 730, 2009.

15 A.3d 1247 (2011)

James E. SHEEHAN, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. OBLATES OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES; Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, Incorporated, a Delaware corporation; and Salesianum School, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendant Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: February 22, 2011.

Reargument Denied April 19, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas S. Neuberger , Stephen J. Neuberger (argued) and Raeann Warner of The Neuberger Firm, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware; Robert Jacobs and Thomas C. Crumplar of Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, for appellant.

Mark J. Reardon , Colleen D. Shields (argued), Penelope B. O'Connell and Peter S. Murphy of Elzufon Austin Reardon Tarlov & Mondell, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware; Of Counsel: Mark E. Chopko (argued) and Marissa A. Parker of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP, Washington, D.C., for appellees.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, BERGER, JACOBS, RIDGELY, Justices and NOBLE, Vice Chancellor constituting the Court en banc.

STEELE, Chief Justice:

James E. Sheehan filed a personal injury action under 10 Del. C. § 8145, the Child Victim's Act, against several institutional defendants, including the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales and Salesianum School, for the alleged sexual abuse he suffered in 1962 by Father Francis Norris, a teacher at Salesianum. The Child Victim's Act (CVA), enacted in 2007, abolished the civil statute of limitations for claims of childhood sexual abuse...

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