Leo Labbe News Today

CONCORD, N.H. (Legal Newsline) - A woman who claims she discovered a Catholic school was responsible for hiring a known sexual offender decades after she was assaulted can proceed with her lawsuit, New Hampshire’s highest court ruled, overruling a lower court that dismissed the case under a three-year statute of limitations.

A woman who was sexually assaulted by a teacher known to be a sex offender by Bishop Guertin High School before he was hired can sue the school, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled.