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   > Policial correctness has taken over the country   
      
   Arizona victims of long-ago child sex abuse can proceed with   
   lawsuits against groups like the Boy Scouts of America following   
   a decision by the state Supreme Court that rejected claims that   
   a 2019 state law extending victims' right to sue was   
   unconstitutional.   
      
   Arizona is among many states that have reacted to child sex   
   abuse in recent years by allowing victims of even decades-old   
   abuse to sue groups that didn't protect them from predators.   
   That has led to lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Church,   
   Scouts and others.   
      
   The high court without comment last week rejected appeals by Big   
   Brothers Big Sisters of America and its affiliates in central   
   and southern Arizona of lower court rulings that found the 2019   
   law extending the statute of limitations was constitutional.   
      
   The rulings appear to be the first to directly address whether   
   the Arizona law is legal, according to an attorney who   
   represents victims in the two cases the high court considered.   
      
   Those lawsuits allege that the group that connects youth called   
   'Littles" with adult mentors known as “Bigs” did not properly   
   oversee the Bigs. The cases involved two men who abused boys,   
   one in 1983 and one in the 1970s, Phoenix attorney Robert Pastor   
   said Thursday. The men are not defendants.   
      
   Child USA, a national group that pushes for so-called “revival”   
   laws that allow old cases to be pursued in court, urged the high   
   court to uphold the trial court rulings. It noted Arizona was   
   among more than 30 states enacting legislation since 2002   
   allowing such lawsuits, most in recent years.   
      
   “A ruling against (the law's) revival window would have negative   
   ramifications for all the child sexual abuse survivors   
   throughout Arizona who are embracing the window in pursuit of   
   long overdue justice,” the group's filing said.   
      
   The Utah Supreme Court in 2020 threw out its revival law, but   
   other states have upheld them, including the Connecticut Supreme   
   Court in 2015 in a case involving a Roman Catholic priest.   
      
   Arizona's high court considered appeals from decisions by two   
   Maricopa County Superior Court judges who rejected Big Brothers   
   Big Sisters' arguments that the Legislature violated its due   
   process rights by extending the statute of limitations.   
      
   The judges said in rulings issued last year that courts have   
   long held that changing a statute of limitation is within the   
   rights of legislatures.   
      
   “The Revival Law does not violate the due process clauses of   
   either Arizona’s Constitution or the United States   
   Constitution,” Judge Randall Warner wrote in his ruling. A   
   second judge made a similar decision.   
      
   The lawsuits were put on hold while the group appealed, but now   
   can proceed.   
      
   Big Brothers Big Sisters of America spokeswoman Dvon Williams   
   said the group does not comment on litigation. The CEO of the   
   Southern Arizona chapter, Marie Logan, declined to comment on   
   the suits, and calls and emails to the affiliate in Phoenix were   
   not immediately returned.   
      
   Arizona's 2019 law provided a one-time window for victims of   
   long-ago child sex abuse to sue beyond the existing two-year   
   statute of limitations that began once they turned 18. That   
   window closed at the end of 2020. It also created a much longer   
   time for more recent victims to sue after they turn 18, allowing   
   lawsuits to be filed up to age 30.   
      
   The lawmaker who pushed the law said he was pleased with the   
   court rulings.   
      
   “I never had any concerns that it wasn’t constitutional,” said   
   Republican state Sen. Paul Boyer, whose insistence on the law   
   held up the state budget in 2019. “I would have loved the window   
   to have been open longer and I would have loved to have it   
   higher than age 30, but it was a compromise.”   
      
   Pastor, the attorney who represents the two unidentified men   
   suing over abuse by their “Bigs,” said he'll now be able to find   
   out how much Big Brothers Big Sisters knew about child predators   
   who he says used their organization to groom and victimize   
   children.   
      
   He said groups like Big Brothers Big Sisters provide vitally   
   needed support for children, but must be vigilant about keeping   
   predators from using them to find victims.   
      
   “What we know as litigators advocating for survivors is that   
      
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