The lawyer for a man whose lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Atlanta claiming that a priest repeatedly molested him more than 30 years ago was thrown out on statute of limitation grounds asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to revive the case Tuesday.

The priest responsible for the abusing “Philip Doe” died in 1997, but it was only after then-Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory released a list of more than a dozen priests and seminarians “credibly accused” of sexually abusing minors in 2018 that Doe came forward with claims of having been molested as an altar boy.