Supreme Court of California

In an action brought by plaintiffs, who were now in their 40's, against defendant-city and the Boy Scouts of America alleging they had been sexually abused by a police officer while they were participants in an LAPD Explorer Scout Program in the 1970's, dismissal of the action on limitations grounds is affirmed where: 1) although the court of appeals erred in imposing stringent pleading requirements on plaintiffs who sought to bring their actions within the expansion of the statute of limitations in childhood sexual abuse cases under Code Civ. Proc. section 340.1(b)(2); nevertheless, 2) even without such stringent requirements, the statute requires more specific allegations than were made by plaintiffs in this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/01/2007
• Published 11/01/2007

Judges

• MORENO, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Zalkin & Zimmer, Devin M. Storey, Irwin M. Zalkin, San Diego;  Taylor & Ring, David M. Ring, John C. Taylor, Los Angeles;  Bennett, Johnson & Galler, Todd A. Walburg and William C. Johnson for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Rockard J. Delgadillo, City Attorney, Janet G. Bogigian, Assistant City Attorney, and Amy Jo Field, Deputy City Attorney, for Defendant and Respondent City of Los Angeles., Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Christina J. Imre, Los Angeles, Orly Degani, Gregory H. Halliday and Thomas A. Delaney, Irvine, for Defendant and Respondent Boy Scouts of America., Hennigan, Bennett & Dorman, J. Michael Hennigan and Lee W. Potts, Potts, for Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles and Defense Laison Counsel as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent Boy Scouts of America., Sweeney & Greene, James F. Sweeney and Stephen R. McCutcheon, Jr., Sacramento, for California Catholic Conference as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent Boy Scouts of America.