Proper commencement of an arbitration is important where claims and / or remdies may otherwise be barred
by a limitation period or contractual time limit.
This decision serves as an important reminder that plaintiffs should always pay close attention to potential jurisdiction issues, and should have those issues determined at an early stage, or alternatively commence simultaneous claims, in order to preserve their claims from being barred
by limitation periods.
I should have added — it's not really about limitations law, even though the problem discussed is triggered
by a limitation period issue.
Background: This was an appeal from an order upholding a decision by the Respondent, E. Sands & Associates Inc., to approve proofs of claim that the Appellant, Mr. Roberts, says were barred
by a limitation period.
Not exact matches
In the event of an ownership change, utilization of our pre-change NOLs would be subject to annual
limitation under Section 382 determined
by multiplying the value of our stock at the time of the ownership change
by the applicable long - term tax - exempt rate, increased in the five - year
period following such ownership change
by «recognized built - in gains» under certain circumstances.
Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied
by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without
limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time
period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting
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by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail
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limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented
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Issuers trying to game
limitations by masking project names and conducting multiple crowdfunding campaigns over a
period of time to exceed fund raising caps.
However, the Roman Catholic Church is not wholly consistent at this point, for the papal Encyclica casti connubi gives approval to family
limitation not only
by abstinence when both parties consent but
by intercourse at those
periods when conception is least likely to take place.
This leads to the last
limitation in the attachment model that «attachment is confined to the infancy and early childhood
period, ending, as noted
by Bowlby, during puberty.
The only
limitation placed on a business is that it need not answer more than one request
by a customer over a 12 - month
period, as long as the request is for the same information.
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limitations period, then the
limitations period under the applicable substantive law shall control.
The failure of a party to file an arbitration claim within the applicable
limitations period shall constitute a waiver
by that party of its right to bring such a claim relating to any Dispute in any form, and a complete bar to any claim based on any Dispute, and the arbitrator shall not have jurisdiction to make a determination for a party that has not brought its Dispute for determination within the applicable
limitations period.
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by any person authorized
by HBO,
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period of all such rights (together with any extensions and renewals) and insofar as possible in perpetuity;
She appears too self - contained
by the
limitations of the screenplay and finds herself with nowhere to go but join up the predictable and restrictive
period drama dots.
If the lender hasn't been to court and won a judgment
by the end of the
limitation period, the debt becomes legally uncollectible.
Specifically, and without
limitation, Plaintiff will show that the private loans held
by Defendant were not incurred «solely to pay qualified higher education expenses,» per 26 U.S.C. § 221 (d)(1), and were not «attributable to education furnished during a
period during which the recipient was an eligible student,» as defined
by 26 U.S.C. § 221 (d)(1)(C).
Savings and money market Accounts are generally limited to a total of six (6) withdrawals
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limitation Deposit Account Transfers and Payments using this Service per statement
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In most states, after passage of a
period of time specified
by a «statute of
limitations,» a debt collector loses its right to pursue in court authorization to garnish a debtor's wages or a bank account or place a lien on his or her property.
If you exceed the transfer
limitations set forth above in any statement
period, your account will be subject to closure
by the financial institution.
Otherwise, the applicable statute of
limitations period for all provisions and purposes under this Agreement (including the right to collect debt) will be the longer
period provided
by Utah law or the law in the jurisdiction where you live.
In general, an ownership change occurs when, as of any testing date, the aggregate of the increase in percentage points is more than 50 percentage points of the total amount of a corporation's stock owned
by «5 - percent stockholders,» within the meaning of the NOLs
limitations, whose percentage ownership of the stock has increased as of such date over the lowest percentage of the stock owned
by each such «5 - percent stockholder» at any time during the three - year
period preceding such date.
If you exceed the transfer
limitations set forth above in any statement
period, your account will be charged a $ 10 fee for each item in excess of the six, and be subject to closure
by the financial institution.
Like most insurance policies and benefit programs, insurance policies and benefit programs offered
by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and its affiliates contain certain exclusions, exceptions, waiting
periods, reductions of benefits,
limitations and terms for keeping them in force.
«According to the complaint, defendants» Class
Period statements were materially false and misleading because they failed to disclose and misrepresented the following adverse facts which were known to or recklessly disregarded
by defendants: (a) Battlefield 4 was riddled with bugs and multiple other problems, including downloadable content that allowed players access to more levels of the game, a myriad of connectivity issues, server
limitations, lost data and repeated sudden crashes, among other things; (b) as a result, Electronic Arts would not achieve a successful holiday season 2013 rollout of Battlefield 4; (c) the performance of the Electronic Arts unit publishing Battlefield 4 was so deficient that all other projects that unit was involved in had to be put on hold to permit it to focus its efforts on fixing Battlefield 4;»
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LAMA set world record prices for Sheila Hicks, a work on paper
by Ken Price, and a painting
by Jules Olitski from his late
period, proving that geography is not a
limitation for this boutique auction house, which continues to secure first - rate consignments.
LAMA set world record prices for Sheila Hicks, a work on paper
by Ken Price, and a painting
by Jules Olitski from his late
period, proving that geography is not a
limitation for this boutique auction house.
While the above analysis yields good results for
by tying past climate change to increases in human CO2 emissions, it should be cautioned that the suggested exponential time relation is not suitable for projecting the future over longer time
periods, because of possible changes in human population growth rates and absolute
limitations on carbon available in remaining fossil fuels.
«Both [Fall et al. 2011 and Menne et al. 2010](and cited
by Muller et al) do an analysis over a thirty year time
period while the Muller et al paper uses data for comparison from 1950 — 2010... I see this as a basic failure in understanding the
limitations of the siting survey we conducted on the USHCN, rendering the Muller et al paper conclusions highly uncertain, if not erroneous... I consider the paper fatally flawed as it now stands, and thus I recommend it be removed from publication consideration
by JGR until such time that it can be reworked... it appears they have circumvented the scientific process in favor of PR.»
The reasons cited (see also the accompanying Nature article
by Lars Hedin) for the tree mortality are: a) the faster the trees grow, the quicker they die; b) drought
periods, as we saw in 2010; and c) possible
limitations of N and P nutrients.
Takes note also of the quantified economy - wide emission reduction targets communicated
by Parties included in Annex I and presented in Annex 1 to this decision and of the intention of these Parties to convert them to quantified emission
limitation or reduction objectives for the second commitment
period under the Kyoto Protocol;
Invites Parties included in Annex I and listed in Annex 1 to this decision to submit information on their quantified emission
limitation or reduction objectives for the second commitment
period under the Kyoto Protocol
by 1 May 2012 for consideration
by the Subsidiary Body on Implementation at its thirty - sixth session and requests the Subsidiary Body for Implementation to deliver the results of its work to the Conference of the Parties title of decision on AWG - LCA serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol with a view to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol adopting them as amendments to Annex B of the Kyoto Protocol at its eighth session, while ensuring coherence with the implementation of decision -LCB--RCB-;
(b)
Limitation on Exclusion - Paragraph (2) of section 132 (f) is amended
by striking «and» at the end of subparagraph (A),
by striking the
period at the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting `, and», and
by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
Another point worth highlighting is that, according to the ECJ,
by disapplying the statutes of
limitations periods, the referring court would not breach the principle of legality (nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege), as enshrined in Article 49 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights («Charter»).
If criminal charges have been brought to a criminal court shortly before the statutes of
limitations period elapsed, its significant extension, not backed
by any clear legal basis, would constitute a sudden and unpredictable change.
In sum, I believe that labelling statutes of
limitations periods as «procedural» under EU law should not excuse their arbitrary extension on a case -
by - case basis
by courts, having no backing in any clear legislative provisions.
Hence, even though the ECJ could have found the Italian rules on statutes of
limitations period deficient in view of Article 325 TFEU, it should not have ordered national courts to give full effect to Article 325 TFEU
by disapplying these rules.
The obligation imposed on an individual to stand criminal trial regardless of previously established statutes of
limitations periods interferes undoubtedly with the fundamental right to effective judicial protection, safeguarded
by Article 47 of the Charter.
The real problem is whether or to what extent we can aggravate the legal situation of EU citizens
by disapplying the legislative provisions on
limitation periods for criminal proceedings, if we rely only on such vague and open - ended provisions of EU law like Article 325 TFEU.
The
limitations on the exercise of these Charter rights are echoed in the E-Privacy Directive, recital 11 of which states that measures derogating from its principles must be «strictly» proportionate to the intended purpose, while Article 15 (1) itself specifies that data retention should be «justified»
by reference to one of the objectives stated in Article 15 (1) and be for a «limited
period» [95].
By the time HOOPP Realty was told its claim was in the wrong forum, the
limitation period had run out to arbitrate.
The judgment in Taricco I is predominantly about the national courts» obligation to give full effect to Article 325 TFEU, if needs be
by disapplying the rules of statutes of
limitations periods.
In its Taricco I judgment (analysed previously
by M. Lassalle on this blog), the ECJ decided that national courts must disapply the rules of statutes of
limitations periods for the duration of criminal proceedings pending before a court, if such rules were liable to have an adverse effect on fulfilling
by the Member States their obligations under Article 325 TFEU.
In my view, even if statutes of
limitations periods should be considered as forming part of procedural law, this would not mean that they are exempted from the EU general principle of legal certainty and that they can be modified on a case -
by - case basis
by courts, arbitrarily, without any clear and generally applicable legislative guidance.
Dwyidag moved for summary judgment dismissing Garford's claim on the grounds that it had sued after the expiry of the two year
limitation period established
by the Competition Act.
This seminar, given
by Dov Ohrenstein, addresed the issues concerning
Limitation Periods including continuing duties, date of loss, date of knowledge, and the relevance of limitation periods to equitable claims such as for specific pe
Limitation Periods including continuing duties, date of loss, date of knowledge, and the relevance of limitation periods to equitable claims such as for specific perfo
Periods including continuing duties, date of loss, date of knowledge, and the relevance of
limitation periods to equitable claims such as for specific pe
limitation periods to equitable claims such as for specific perfo
periods to equitable claims such as for specific performance.
Thanks to the reforms introduced
by this Act,
limitation periods for civil claims arising from sexual assaults have now been completely eliminated.
Another notable change contemplated
by Bill 132 is an amendment to the Limitations Act which would eliminate the
limitation period for a person to commence a proceeding based on a sexual assault or, in specified circumstances, on other misconduct of a sexual nature or on assault.
There is recent authority that common law claims for unjust enrichment
by trustees against members are quasi-contractual in nature, such that a six year
limitation period would apply.