Somehow I don't think the court would have ruled this way if the perpetrator had been a Catholic priest instead of a public school teacher. Call me a cynic.
Thinking the same thing.
Don't get me wrong, I think that the offending priests those who hid the priests and allowed this abuse to go should be punished. I just find it ironic that dead priests can be accused of all sorts of horrid things, and dioceses bankrupted and yet this lawsuit is not allowed to go forward.
It truly is scary how many predators are in our school system.
Cynic, no -rational observer, yes. Many jurisdictions have set aside specifically such "time limits" in cases of those filing legal suits against the Church in cases involving homosexual predator clergy members.
--Such precedence placing justice above above process (do not know if it has happened in Tennessee) should be cited in any appeal(s)...