Multiple dioceses sold “vast swaths” of church property in the 2000s, the petition states. The Catholic Church paid out more than $1 billion to settle claims, according to the bishops’ petition to the U.S. More than 850 people sued the Catholic Church the following year, and another 150 sued other religious institutions and the Boy Scouts of America. In 2002, the state passed a similar law creating a year-long window for people to file such claims. Complainants older than 40 must obtain, through an attorney, a mental health evaluation that finds “there is a reasonable basis to believe that the plaintiff had been subject to childhood sexual abuse.” The law allows people younger than 40 to file complaints without any extra steps. The bill opened a three-year period, from 2020 to 2022, that permitted complainants to file sexual abuse claims that exceeded the statute of limitations. California created its new lookback window in 2019 under Assembly Bill 218, authored by then-Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, a San Diego Democrat.
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