MANHATTAN (CN) — A woman’s effort to revive her sexual assault lawsuit against luxury real estate brokers and socialite brothers Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander has sparked bigger questions about New York enforcement in civil rape cases, a Second Circuit judge acknowledged Wednesday.
A panel of judges on the federal appeals court was mulling whether to reverse the dismissal of the lawsuit brought last year by Angelica Parker, who claims that both Tal and Alon Alexander sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan apartment in 2012 while Oren Alexander watched. The complaint was tossed earlier this year by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, a Bill Clinton appointee who found that Parker’s lawsuit was untimely.
Kaplan found that a pair of state-level New York laws, which created a revival window for sexual assault claims that would otherwise be time-barred, preempt a similar revival window created by a New York City law…