Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner Philip Culhane finds a measure of peace in a federal judge’s ruling Tuesday that a prominent Brooklyn prep school can’t argue that New York State’s statute of limitations should automatically nullify a lawsuit in which Culhane and 11 other men claim they were sexually molested by a revered football coach school — and that school officials covered up the serial sexual abuse.

“No matter what happens from this point on, I’ve achieved one of my most important goals,” Culhane says, “which is for the truth to be told.”