The Bush administration's behavior was disturbing, and so is the Obama administration's forceful defense of this outrageous practice of using a statute intended for one purpose for something very different.
Mr. Belkin said that while the two- or four-year limitation on overcharge complaints may seem harsh to tenants, the use of a statute of limitations is basically fair.
Isn't there a statute of limitations on using footage of Morris dancers or Mohican hairdos in analyses of English character?
A statute of Richard III (reigned 1483 85), however, allowed the beneficiary to transfer the property, and in 1536 the Statute of Uses eliminated the middleman and revested the legal title in the beneficiary.
For six years, the Home Office had fought compensation claims, using the statute of limitations to avoid payment in a costly legal fight that went all the way to the House of Lords, and even suggesting that one victim was "genetically predisposed" to being abused.
The document also says that the archdiocese will not use the statute of limitations or the special status of the church as a charity to limit the payments.
When the Medomsley victims first sought redress, the Home Office used the statute of limitations to avoid payment.
A top-tier Brooklyn private school cannot automatically use New York State's statute of limitations to prevent a case involving sexual abuse allegations against a former football coach from proceeding, a judge ruled Tuesday, because of the possibility that the school may have engaged in a scheme to cover up decades of abuse.
In 2002 the court granted Texaco's motion, and the case moved to Ecuador on the condition that the company stop using an expiration of the statute of limitations as a defence and that any judgment be enforceable in the U.S.
"The report that ultimately led to the enactment of this part of CERCLA identified significant problems created for victims of toxic contamination by both statutes of limitations and statues of repose," Burger said, adding that Congress doesn't use the term "statute of repose" anywhere in its books.
