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Louisiana Legislature opened window for sex abuse survivors to sue, but state's high court shut it

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Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana's Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file civil damage lawsuits over their molestation.

The ruling bucked a trend. Advocates say 24 other states have laws, upheld as constitutional, that revived the right to sue for people abused as children. Until last week's 4-3 decision, was the only state where such a law was found unconstitutional.

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