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HARVEY v. MERCHAN

S21A0143.

860 S.E.2d 561 (2021)

HARVEY et al. v. MERCHAN.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: June 21, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Candace Ellene Rader , Candace E. Rader P.C., 301 Tanner Street, Carrollton, Georgia 30117-0623, Met Merritt Lane , Shadrix Lane & Parmer, PC, 214 Habersham Place, Carrollton, Georgia 30117, for Appellant.

Paul E. Weathington , Weathington, LLC, 191 Peachtree Street, N.E., Suite 3900, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Amicus Appellant.

Esther Dina Feuer Panitch , The Panitch Law Group, P.C., 4243 Dunwoody Club Drive, Suite 216, Atlanta, Georgia 30350, Brian Joseph Atkinson , Emily M. Hetherington , Devin LeDrut Mashman , Wilbanks Cease Clinic, P.O. Box 1792, Athens, Georgia 30603, for Appellee.

Lyle Griffin Warshauer , Warshauer Law Group, P.C., 2740 Bert Adams Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, Darren Wade Penn , Kevin M. Ketner , Penn Law LLC, 4200 Northside Parkway, NW, Building One, Suite 100, Atlanta, Georgia 30327, Jacqueline Olivia Eisermann , Richard A. Horder , Kazmarek MoWrey Cloud Laseter LLP; 1230 Peachtree Street NE, Ste 900, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Amicus Appellee.

For a brief time period, OCGA § 9-3-33.1 allowed time-barred civil claims for childhood sexual abuse to be revived. During that time period, Joy Caroline Harvey Merchan sued her parents, Walter Jackson Harvey, Jr., and Carole Allyn Hill Harvey, under the revival provision of the statute for damages resulting from alleged...

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