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 ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania’s statute of repose, enacted in 1976, has long provided construction industry participants with finality by barring claims related to construction defects raised more than 12 years after ...

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 ...

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) ...