Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 416: Listen and Learn -- Service of Process (Civ Pro)
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Ferraro v. Patterson-Erie Corp., 313 A.3d 987 (Pa. April 25, 2024) - In deciding whether a complaint served after expiration of the applicable statute of limitations period was time-barred, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania...more
On August 24, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss claims asserted under the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act (FDCPA), holding that for claims based on...more
Procedural omissions for service out of the jurisdiction will not impact issuance of a claim for the purposes of limitation. In Chelfat v. Hutchinson 3G UK Limited [2022] EWCA Civ 455, the UK Court of Appeal recently...more
Is a trial court "without discretion" to grant extension of time for obtaining certificate of merit when plaintiff fails to comply with 2-622? Terrance Owens v. Riverside Medical Center, et al., 2020 IL App (3d) 180391 - ...more
The Ohio Supreme Court (Supreme Court) rejected an attempt to use Ohio’s savings statute to resurrect a medical malpractice claim that the Plaintiff had failed to timely serve on one of three Defendants. In Moore v. Mount...more
The Bullet Point: Ohio Commercial Law Bulletin Does the Savings Statute Save My Claim? Volume 4, Issue 16 August 26, 2020 Jim Sandy and Stephanie Hand-Cannane Savings Statute Moore v. Mt. Carmel Health Sys., Slip...more
The plaintiff moved to vacate an arbitration award and the defendant moved to dismiss and confirm. The defendant’s dismissal motion challenged confirmation of an arbitration award, arguing that the matter was filed in...more
We noted earlier the Supreme Court’s review of the Third Circuit’s decision in Rotkiske v. Klemm regarding the statute of limitations for claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Again, this was a case...more
A&B ABstract: On December 10, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, absent the application of an equitable doctrine, the one-year statute of limitations for actions against debt collectors under the Fair Debt Collection...more
Rotkiske v. Klemm, 589 U.S. (2019) In a recent decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that a consumer claimant under the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) has one year from the alleged violation to file...more
The Situation: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") allows plaintiffs to sue over abusive debt-collection practices within one year of "the date on which the violation occurs." 15 U.S.C. § 1692k(d). The U.S. Court...more
The Supreme Court of the United States (“Supreme Court”) recently affirmed the Third Circuit’s decision holding Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) claims are subject to a one-year statute of limitations from the...more
Earlier this year, this blog reported on the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in Rotkiske v. Klemm to resolve a split in circuits on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act's (FDCPA) statute of limitations. This week, in an...more
In an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Rotkiske v. Klemm that the FDCPA’s one-year statute of limitations (SOL) runs from the date of the alleged violation and not from a consumer’s discovery of the...more
On December 10, 2019, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Rotkiske v. Klemm, holding that, absent application of an equitable doctrine, the statute of limitations for a claim under the Fair Debt Collection...more
On December 10, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Rotkiske v. Klemm, et al., No. 18-328, holding that the one-year statute of limitations set out in the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) begins to...more
In Rotkiske v. Klemm, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to do what many plaintiffs’ attorneys have dreamed of for years: effectively expand the FDCPA’s one-year statute of limitations by applying the “discovery rule” to...more
In 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court in Hall Street Associates LLC v. Mattel Inc. determined that parties may not contractually agree to expand judicial review of arbitral awards beyond the grounds set forth in the Federal...more
A commercial division litigator knows the severity of missing a statutory deadline. We discuss the implications of missing a statutory deadlines here. CPLR 306(b) is unique in that it provides a statutory deadline for service...more
Recently, Florida’s First District Court of Appeal held that for purposes of determining the timeliness of a proposal for settlement, the complaint is considered served on the insurer when process is served upon the statutory...more
• Under Section 16.003 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, a plaintiff must "bring suit" on claims for, among other things, personal injury or wrongful death within a two-year statute of limitations. • In a...more
AC35659 - Ceferatti v. Aranow - In this med mal case the Appellate Court held that leaving a sponge in the patient did not toll the SOL under the continuing course of conduct theory so as to avoid SJ in favor of the...more
SC19191 - Dorry v. Garden - The Supreme Court held that the accidental failure of suit statute saves a complaint that is not properly served within the original statute of limitations period, no matter how defective...more
I. FLORIDA STATE CASES - STEFANIE LINCOLN - Foreclosure: an attorney may file a nonresident cost bond on behalf of a client without violating the prohibition against an attorney's acting as a surety for his client – US...more