The article focuses on the federal four-year limitations statute which applies to suit under 1991 U.S. Civil Rights Act as highlighted in the case Jones v. R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. One of the reasons for the enactment of the federal statute creating the four-year limitations period ...
Basic limitation period: varies depending on the type of claim (a court can grant leave to continue or begin an action after the basic limitation period, if less than 12 months have elapsed between the date the action was discovered and the date of application for leave, subject to the ulti...
Domingo, Randolph confirmed that although no criminal jurisdiction would extend to those acts, civil jurisdiction was plainly to be had in federal courts, where an alien brought a suit seeking damages for the Georgians’ violation of international law: Neither of the two cases is cognizable in th...