Title: Herald v. Hood

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

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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    .