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CHILD USA wrote this amicus brief to supply the New York Court of Appeals with the legislative and public policies undergirding the New York Child Victims Act. It also presents current research on the impact that abuse has on individuals, including the many years it...

CHILD USA wrote this amicus brief in support of an Application for Invocation of King's Bench Jurisdiction filed by Governor Tom Wolf and Acting Secretary Leigh Chapman in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in which they ask the Court to invalidate the General...

CHILD USA, together with non-profits and law firms dedicated to victim advocacy, wrote this amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the District Court's denial of Twitter's Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs' sex trafficking claims and to allow...

CHILD USA wrote this amicus brief to supply the New York Court of Appeals with the legislative and public policies undergirding the New York Child Victims Act. It also presents current research on the impact that abuse has on individuals, including the many years it...

CHILD USA, together with the National Center for Victims of Crime, filed this amicus brief in support of Plaintiff-Appellant challenging the lower court's ruling that reduced the jury's verdict on punitive damages to the maximum amount of $250,000 allowed under state...

CHILD USA filed this amicus brief in support of Plaintiff-Appellant challenge to the lower court's ruling that victims of sexual abuse are limited to filing only a single Child Sexual Abuse Act (“CSAA”) claim under New Jersey’s two-year revival window, and that all...

CHILD USA filed this brief supporting the Appellant's appeal to the federal Fifth Circuit. The Appellants argue that the Eastern District of Louisiana erred in granting the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss. CHILD USA argues that Louisiana's Act 322 does not violate...

CHILD USA filed this brief supporting the Appellant's appeal to the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. Here, CHILD USA argues that the revival provisions in Rhode Island's section 9-1-51 violate neither the United States Constitution, nor the Rhode Island Constitution....

CHILD USA filed this brief in support of Plaintiff-Appellant that this Court should reverse the lower court’s decision and permit Plaintiff to proceed with her claim under the revival window opened by the New York Child Victims Act ("CVA"). Here, CHILD USA argues that...