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New York Daily News
BY MICHAEL O’KEEFFE , DAREH GREGORIAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Thursday, September 4, 2014
A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the dismissal of a $680 million sex abuse lawsuit against Yeshiva University.
In a nine-page ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals found the 34 former students who sued the school had waited too long to try to make the school pay for covering up decades of sexual abuse there.
“This is a dark day for justice in New York State. Justice has been perverted,” said the victims’ lawyer, Kevin Mulhearn. “My clients, sex abuse survivors all, have been violated once again.”
The students’ suit said the abuse happened in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, and the decision notes that the case wasn’t brought until last year, “more than 20 years after the last plaintiff left” the all-boys’ school.
At a hearing last week, Mulhearn argued the victims couldn’t have sued earlier because they didn’t find out about the school’s culpability in the abuse until an expose on its inaction by The Forward newspaper in 2012.
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