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Prosecutors said the case was closed because the statute of limitations on the alleged offense had expired. PARIS -- Prosecutors in France said Wednesday that they had dropped a rape [...]

Byline: Pat Murphy The six-year statute of repose applicable to claims for construction defects in the common areas of a multi-unit condominium development is not tolled until the entire project [...]

Byline: Barry Bridges A plaintiff's out-of-time petition asserting a breach of contract action against her ex-husband's estate, filed seven years after the applicable six-month statute of limitations, was not delayed [...]

Byline: Barry Bridges In a split decision, the Rhode Island Supreme Court has held that the state's "savings statute," G.L. 9-1-22, preserved for an additional year a plaintiff's right to [...]

Byline: Peter Vieth The Supreme Court of Virginia says a Roanoke lawyer is liable to the family of a deceased former law partner for pocketing the proceeds of a long-overlooked [...]

Byline: David Donovan South Carolina's three-year statute of limitations doesn't apply to claims for promissory estoppel, the state's Supreme Court has ruled, answering a certified question from the federal district [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky Justice Department officials have gamed out scenarios in which they would seek to extend statutes of limitation for investigations stalled by the coronavirus epidemic or ask to [...]

In D'Allesandro v. Lennar Hingham Holdings, LLC, 486 Mass 150, 2020 Mass. LEXIS 721, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts answered a certified question regarding how to apply the Massachusetts [...]

In the recent decision of MacKinnon v. Halton Regional Police Services Board et al, 2020 ONSC 6908, the Ontario Superior Court dismissed a plaintiff's claim on a motion for summary [...]

People are always asking how long the IRS can wait from the time you file your return to conduct an audit of your income and expenses. The simple, most definitive [...]

On March 20, 2020, Governor Cuomo issued Executive Order 202.8, which (in relevant part) expressly tolled all New York State limitation periods from March 20, 2020 to April 19, 2020: [...]

Co-authored by James De Melo, Student-at-Law From the moment the Government of Ontario declared a state of emergency-closing all non-essential business and suspending limitation periods and the timelines for taking [...]

Most claims that have to be pursued by way of a court proceeding are subject to a limitation period, i.e., a time period within which the court proceeding must be [...]

Many of you who are involved in an existing litigation may wonder about the effect of COVID-19 on the court system of British Columbia. The Supreme Court of British Columbia [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky Justice Department officials have gamed out scenarios in which they would seek to extend statutes of limitation for investigations stalled by the coronavirus epidemic or ask to [...]

As of today, money decrees passed by superior courts in reciprocating foreign countries are executable in India, as if they were a decree passed by the district court before which [...]

Byline: Matt Chaney The statute of limitations on a claim of deficient notice of disposition of collateral under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code begins only when the property [...]

Byline: Jennifer H. Svan KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany - The dismissal of a former Spangdahlem fighter pilot's 2014 rape conviction last month marks the latest in overturned rape convictions, following the U.S. [...]

Byline: Peter Vieth Legislation approved by the General Assembly should close a little-noticed gap in the statutes that set out Virginia's limitations periods for contract actions. The well-understood general rule [...]

Byline: admin Like many other tort and civil rights actions, employment discrimination claims have a three-year statute of limitations. Unlike other types of claims, however, employment bias cases have an [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt;Kayla Epstein Parents clutched shiny new folders and shuffled 7-year-olds through crowded, brick-walled hallways. Past the booth with the spirit-wear sale and sign-up forms for the PTA stood [...]

Recently, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in the matter of Rotkiske v. Klemm. At issue is whether the discovery rule tolls the statute of limitations under [...]

Byline: Pat MurphyMembers of the Supreme Judicial Court recently appeared skeptical of a Boston lawyer's assertion that he had not waited too long to file an action to collect money [...]

California Assembly Bill 9 (AB 9), sponsored by Assembly Members Eloise Reyes, Laura Friedman, and Marie Waldron, would expand employee protections related to harassment and discrimination in the workplace. The [...]

INTRODUCTION The Turkish Data Protection Authority ('DPA') published on 13.02.2019 a decision1 clarifying the statute of limitations for the complaints to be lodged to the DPA in cases where a [...]

Byline: Thomas Franz A Michigan Court of Appeals panel determined that a part-time postal delivery worker is entitled to personal injury protection benefits after she was injured while delivering mail [...]

Byline: Rebecca M. Lightle When inmates sue under 1983 for prison officials' disregard of a serious and ongoing medical need, the statute of limitations does not begin to run until [...]

Byline: PETER GOFFIN; THE CANADIAN PRESS A lawyer for a former assistant to Harvey Weinstein is challenging parts of a lawsuit brought by a Toronto woman against his client and [...]

Byline: Eric T. Berkman Condominium owners whose property was contaminated by hazardous material from a city dump that once operated on the site could wait three years after learning their [...]