Key School v. Bunker

Summary

The court held that the 2023 Child Victims Act is constitutional as applied to claims that had previously been barred by the 2017 statutory period. It concluded that the 2017 restriction was an ordinary statute of limitations, not a statute of repose, and that its expiration did not give defendants a vested right to immunity from liability. The court further held that retroactively reviving remedies barred by a statute of limitations is subject to heightened rational-basis review rather than ordinary rational-basis review. The opinion also declined to inquire further into the standing of a county board of education under the unusual interlocutory-appeal circumstances presented.