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Senate Judiciary Committee recommends bill to remove child sex abuse statute of limitations

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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday recommended that the Senate pass the Eliminating Limits to Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act to empower victims of child sex abuse by removing the statute of limitations for federal civil child sex abuse claims, giving survivors unlimited time to file the claims.

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Court narrows scope of federal wire fraud statutes

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Share For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily narrowed the scope of the federal criminal wire fraud statutes, and Thursday’s decision in Ciminelli v. The court held that the federal criminal wire fraud statutes do not incorporate a “right to control” theory of fraud. United States is no exception.

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US Supreme Court to hear Quiet Title Act statute of limitations case

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Wilson deals with the QTA’s 12 year statute of limitations for claimants and asks whether the statute of limitations is a jurisdictional rule or a claim-processing rule. The court has twice ruled that the 12 year statute of limitations in the QTA is a jurisdictional rule in Block v. North Dakota and United States v.

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Illinois Supreme Court extends statute of limitations period in unlawful data-handling claims

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said the lawsuit raised a question of law which was barred under the statute of limitations contained in the Biometric Information Privacy Act. The appellate court said that claims, like the ones brought by Tims, should be subject to the one-year statute of limitations period. Black Horse Inc. is allowed to proceed.

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US Supreme Court agrees to hear cases on statute of limitations, personal jurisdiction

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Norfolk Southern Railway Company , which focus on statute of limitations and personal jurisdiction issues. In Reed , petitioner Rodney Reed asked the court to decide when “the statute of limitations begins to run for an action under 42 U.S.C. The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari to two cases, Reed v.

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US Supreme Court narrows application of foreign discovery statute

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” The court concluded that “private adjudicatory bodies” do not qualify as foreign or international tribunals under the statute. The post US Supreme Court narrows application of foreign discovery statute appeared first on JURIST - News. Since the purpose of 28 U.S.C.

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Court holds statute of limitations under Quiet Title Act is not a jurisdictional bar

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United States broke no new ground, as it followed a steady line of cases applying a rule under which time limits in federal statutes do not create jurisdictional bars unless the statute makes that intent clear. Share Tuesday’s decision in Wilkins v. So, if the bar is jurisdictional, they would be completely out of luck.

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