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Oct. 16, 2026

Bankruptcy and betrayal

SB 577, California's new law tightening liability and damages rules for childhood sexual abuse claims against public agencies, has opened a rift between survivors' advocates and the Consumer Attorneys of California, which helped negotiate the bill rather than oppose it.

California's new law limiting public agencies' liability for childhood sexual abuse was years in the making. Repairing the rift between survivors' advocates and the plaintiffs' bar could take even longer.

California's plaintiffs' lawyers and sexual abuse survivors have spent years fighting side by side to make it easier for victims to sue their abusers.

Now they're fighting each other.

The breaking point was SB 577, a new law that tigh...

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