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Rules of Civil Procedure Statute of Limitations Dismissals

Marshall Dennehey

Superior Court Reverses Dismissal, Holds Electronically Signed Praecipe Timely Filed Upon Receipt by Prothonotary

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Scheibe v. Woodloch Resort, 2025 Pa. Super. 109 (Pa. Super. May 20, 2025) - The Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a praecipe for writ of summons was deemed to be timely filed as of the date it was initially received...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Fifth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Product Liability Claims in Truck Rollover Case Applying Texas Statute of Repose

The Fifth Circuit held that the 15-year Texas statute of repose barred a family’s claims regarding the rollover of a truck. The court was required to interpret the statutory language “date of the sale of the product,”...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Florida Real Property And Business Litigation Report Volume XIII, Issue 50

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M & M Realty Partners at Hagen Ranch, LLC v. Mazzoni, Case No. 18-13536 (11th Cir. 2020). A “binding financial commitment” from a third party, including a wholly owned business entity, is required in order to satisfy the...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Florida Supreme Court Rules that Dismissal of Foreclosure Action Returns Parties to their Pre-Foreclosure Action...

The Florida Supreme Court issued its long awaited decision in Bartram et al. v. U.S. Bank NA, case number SC14-1265, on November 3, 2016, affirming the decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeals in U.S. Bank Nat. Ass’n...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Inapplicability of the "One Year" Limitations Tolling Period of the N.C. Rules of Civil Procedure

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In Murphy v. Hinton, No. COA14-1230 (July 7, 2015), the North Carolina Court of Appeals determined that a complaint dismissed voluntarily cannot benefit from the "one-year refiling" period pursuant to Rule 41(a)(1) of the...more

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