The ruling against Prince Andrew is another win for the Child Victims Act’s lookback window

“Defendant is not the first litigant to advance this argument, which has been rejected by every New York state and federal court to have encountered it,” the federal judge wrote in the 46-page decision. “And it has been rejected repeatedly for good reason.”The concise rejection represents a clear message from the courts: The Enacted in 2019, the Barry Salzman, an attorney who has represented pro bono sexual abuse survivors in cases against the clergy and Epstein, said such lookback windows, also known as statute of limitation revival laws, have long been seen as constitutional. The prince’s argument against the law is going to fail, he told CNN.”I honestly don’t think it’s a very strong argument and don’t think it’s ever gonna be struck down,” he said.Salzman praised the judge’s ruling and said he was glad to see the case move forward.”As a lawyer who has advocated for victims for so many years, I’m really happy to see legislation like the CVA which has really allowed all these survivors to get their day in court,” he said. “I think it really speaks to more openness or acceptance in our society to believe these people.”Roberts, too, said Safe Horizon had advocated for the law for a decade, and lawyers had closely crafted the language of the law. She said the argument that defendants lose their due process was “specious.””All the law does is give them an opportunity to go to court. They still have to prove their case,” she said. “The defendant has access to all the usual protections in court as a defendant in lawsuit.”CNN’s Sonia Moghe and Emanuella Grinberg contributed to this report.