Five justices voted in favor of reconsidering earlier decision to deny permission, which devastated adult survivors of clergy abuse
Weeks after the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans was identified as the subject of a child sex-trafficking investigation, the Louisiana state supreme court has agreed to reconsider its decision to strike down a law that had allowed victims to file civil lawsuits over long-ago abuse.
Five of the court’s justices voted in favor of rehearing a case that produced a 4-3 ruling in March, dismaying survivors of the state’s decades-old clergy abuse scandal. The judges voting for a rare rehearing were chief justice John Weimer – who suggested a hearing before the end of May – and associate justices Scott Crichton, William Crain, Jay McCallum and Piper Griffin.
Griffin and Crichton in March had formed part of the majority that struck down the so-called lookback law. But they then signaled their…
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