Aurora Public Schools. v. A.S.
Ruled that since the Child Sexual Abuse Accountability Act creating a new cause of action for victims of child sexual abuse pre-dating the statute and for which claims were time-barred was unconstitutional as applied under constitution’s prohibition on retrospective legislation
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