Herald v. Hood
Herald v. Hood
Opinion
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Herald, Appellee, v. Hood, Appellant. [Cite as Herald v. Hood (1994), Ohio St.3d .]
Statutes of limitations -- Discovery rule applied to toll statute of limitations where victim of childhood sexual abuse represses memories of that abuse until a later time -- Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed. (No. 93-1864 -- Submitted August 31, 1994 -- Decided September 28, 1994.)
Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Summit County, No. 15986.
Robert A. Royer and Suzanne C. Porter, for appellee.
Ted Chuparkoff and Wayne Hassay, for appellant.
Joan Krauskopf, urging affirmance for amici curiae, Now Legal Defense and Education Fund and Ohio National Organization for Women, Inc. Based upon our decision in Ault v. Jasko (1994), 70 Ohio St.3d 114, N.E.2d , wherein we applied the discovery rule for purposes of tolling the statute of limitations in child-sexual-abuse-repressed-memory cases, this appeal is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.
Moyer, C.J., A.W. Sweeney, Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Wright, J., dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Ault v. Jasko (1994), 70 Ohio St.3d 114, N.E.2d .
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