UC Berkeley Swim Coach Abuse Claims Revived by California Court

A lawsuit from 18 former University of California, Berkeley swimmers alleging their coach subjected them to years of verbal and psychological abuse isn’t barred by the statute of limitations, a California appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The appeals court reversed a trial court’s dismissal of the case after finding the discovery rule, which pauses the statute of limitations until a plaintiff actually discovers the alleged injury, may have delayed the accrual of the plaintiffs’ claims until May 2022, making them timely, Justice Monique Langhorne Wilson said in an opinion. The California Courts of Appeal remanded the case with instructions to ...