At least 130 — likely many more, attorneys say — have filed or will file lawsuits against the Santa Rosa Roman Catholic Diocese during a special three-year window that allows adults of any age to file personal injury cases for childhood sex abuse in California. Last chance for survivors to file suit in California If you’ve managed to escape the lawyers’ ads, they’re telling you New Year’s Eve is the last chance for adult survivors of child sexual assault aged 40 and older to file personal injury claims in California courts. A 2020 review by Bloomberg Businessweek of 15 years of court filings by church defense attorneys and plaintiff’s lawyers identified what it said was $2 billion in assets that the U.S. Catholic Church shielded from survivors during bankruptcies.