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 ...
Limitation: a limiting rule or circumstance; a restriction. Repose: a state of rest, sleep or tranquility. Statute: the body or principles of law laid down by legislative action. Somewhere along the ...
The second part of that provision comes into play when grounds for malpractice may not be immediately apparent to the patient. One example of this would be a patient who undergoes surgery and foreign ...
When plaintiffs lawyers on the losing side of the 2nd Circuit’s IndyMac decision ask the Supreme Court to take their case (as I’m pretty sure they will), they might want to point to a just-released ...
For more than 40 years, Pennsylvania’s Construction Statute of Repose (SOR) has given contractors, engineers, and architects the assurance that liability for completed projects eventually comes to an ...
In an unpublished opinion from the Pennsylvania Superior Court handed down on August 31, 2023, a long-standing disagreement about the wording of Pennsylvania's Statute of Repose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.
The Maryland Supreme Court on Monday upheld the 2023 Child Victims Act, which ended the statute of limitations for victims of sexual abuse to bring claims against the institutions that harbored their ...