The North Carolina law, along with legislation adopted by other states, recognizes research that shows coming to terms with child sexual abuse can take many years, with many survivors only able to come forward as adults.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in one of Chicago’s most closely followed low-level felony cases when attorneys for Jussie Smollett appeared before the state’s highest court in Springfield seeking to overturn his convictions nearly three years after he was convicted of staging a fake hate crime.

Lawyers for churches and schools from all around North Carolina are working together at the N.C. Supreme Court, seeking to undo a recent law that made it easier for victims of childhood sexual abuse to sue.