DUPUIS v. ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF PORTLAND

Docket No. BCD-23-122.

2025 ME 6

ROBERT E. DUPUIS et al., v. ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF PORTLAND.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: January 28, 2025.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald F. Petruccelli, Esq. (orally), Scott D. Dolan, Esq., James B. Haddow, Esq., and Michael K. Martin, Esq., Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow, LLP, Portland, for appellant Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland.

Michael T. Bigos, Esq. (orally), Timothy M. Kenlan, Esq., and Joseph G.E. Gousse, Esq., Berman & Simmons, P.A., Lewiston, for appellees Robert E. Dupuis et al.

Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General, and Jason Anton, Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Office of the Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee State of Maine.

Melissa L. Martin, Esq., Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Augusta; Lucia Chomeau Hunt, Esq., Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc., Portland; and Marci A. Hamilton, Esq., Child USA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for amici curiae Child USA, Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc.

Jesse E. Weisshaar, Esq., and Cary Silverman, Esq., Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for amici curiae American Tort Reform Association and American Property Casualty Insurance Association

Shelby Leighton, Esq., Public Justice, Washington, D.C., and Thomas L. Douglas, Esq., Douglas, McDaniel & Campo, LLC, PA, North Yarmouth, for amici curiae Maine Trial Lawyers Association, Public Justice, and American Association for Justice.

Panel: STANFILL, C.J., and MEAD, HORTON, CONNORS, LAWRENCE, and DOUGLAS, JJ., and HUMPHREY, A.R.J.


Reporter of Decisions

[¶1] Robert E. Dupuis and twelve other plaintiffs filed lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland, seeking damages for sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by the Bishop's clergy when the plaintiffs were minor children. Their claims were previously barred by the statute of limitations,...

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