Maryland faces difficult choices when it comes to the size of financial damages available to victims of childhood sexual ...

(The Daily Record/File Photo) A new Maryland law limiting ... allowing victims to sue in state court to preserve their rights under the Child Victims Act, then put them on hold pending resolution ...

Earlier this year, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that the Child Victims Act of 2023 is constitutional, thereby upholding the law that lifted the statute of limitations on ...

The Archdiocese of Baltimore filed for bankruptcy days before Maryland's Child Victims Act went into effect. During court hearings, several survivors testified, emphasizing the importance of ...

The latest court filings add to 565 previous lawsuits ... Lawsuits filed under Maryland Child Victims Act The 650 lawsuits were filed under the Maryland Child Victims Act, a 2023 law that ...

Victims of child sexual abuse are at an impasse with the Archdiocese of Baltimore amid talks over how much victims should be paid. The committee representing victims declared a partial impasse ...

When she was attending Catholic school in Baltimore, Teresa Lancaster would vaguely warn some of her classmates of certain rooms, “don’t go in there.” But it would take decades for her to speak ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court ... Compulsory Education Act, 2009, and ensure continued support for their education. The court also reflected on the broader patterns of child trafficking across ...

Raising a child means guiding their values ... children’s hearts and their own constitutional rights. The Supreme Court must act to halt this overstep. Our children’s futures—and our ...

MARYLAND (WBFF) — With the swipe of his pen, this week, Governor Wes Moore fast tracked sweeping changes to Maryland’s Child Victims Act. The law first passed in 2023 removed the statute of ...

The New York State Supreme Court heard oral arguments today as ... as it faces hundreds of lawsuits under the state’s Child Victims Act. AARP, which is co-representing the pensioners alongside ...

But a divided panel of appeals court judges said the parents hadn’t shown that they or their children had been coerced to believe or act ... if the Supreme Court sides with the Maryland parents.