The article discusses a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Moreira v. Société Générale, which held that Section 6084 of the Helms-Burton Act functions as a statute of repose ...

The plaintiff, Comprehensive Marketing, Inc. ("plaintiff"), filed a lawsuit against its former attorneys ("defendants") for legal malpractice related to legal advice the defendants provided regarding ...

In an unpublished opinion from the Pennsylvania Superior Court handed down on August 31, 2023, a long-standing disagreement about the wording of Pennsylvania's Statute of Repose was finally resolved.

Through television and movies, many people have become familiar with the concept of statutes of limitations—those procedural time limits that prevent a claim from being litigated or (in many courtroom ...

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Lawmakers are weighing an exception to Iowa's statute of repose law for medical malpractice cases, which requires patients to sue within six years.

The development and construction industry and its insurers obtained a win in this year’s Florida legislative session at the expense of property owners. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill ...

The court’s opinion “offers a baseline recognition of the difference between limitations and repose,” said Timothy Bishop of Mayer Brown, who was not involved in the Waldburger case. According to the ...

The Archdiocese of Washington is challenging the constitutionality of Maryland’s new Child Victims Act. The 2023 legislation took effect in October and lifts the statute of limitations for lawsuits ...

Maryland's Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that ended the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits following a report that exposed widespread ...

Not long after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008, an investor in Lehman filed a federal class action complaint. It claimed that underwriters of Lehman’s securities offerings (the defendants) ...