Statute Of Limitations

A federal appeals court Wednesday struck down as unconstitutional a 2002 California law giving owners and heirs to artworks looted by the Nazis extra time -- until the end of 2010 -- to sue for their return. But the 2-1 ruling by a panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco did not settle the specific case at hand: Does the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena own one of the most prized works in its galleries, Lucas Cranach the Elder's circa 1530 depiction of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, valued at $24 million?

A Long Beach Municipal Court judge on Monday dismissed all charges against a priest accused of molesting five boys over two decades, ruling that the statute of limitations on each of the 38 counts had expired. At issue was whether Father Ted Llanos, 49, could be prosecuted for events that allegedly occurred in 1990 or earlier. Judge Bradford L.

The U.S. Supreme Court could be the next stop for a daughter's campaign to force the Internal Revenue Service to refund a $7,000 check mistakenly written by her late father when he was 93 and senile. Although the IRS admits the Granada Hills man never owed such a sum, the agency has steadfastly refused to return his money, saying he missed the deadline to apply for a refund.

A daughter's five-year campaign to force the Internal Revenue Service to return a $7,000 check mistakenly written by her late father when he was 93 and senile may reach the U.S. Supreme Court in a case with broad implications for many taxpayers. Although the IRS admits that the late Granada Hills man never owed such a sum, the agency has steadfastly refused to return his money, saying he missed the deadline to apply for a refund.

The U.S. Supreme Court could be the next stop for a daughter's campaign to force the Internal Revenue Service to refund a $7,000 check mistakenly written by her late father when he was 93 and senile. Although the IRS admits the Granada Hills man never owed such a sum, the agency has steadfastly refused to return his money, saying he missed the deadline to apply for a refund.

A Superior Court judge has rejected a Cudahy councilman's $56,000 claim against his own city, ruling that the statute of limitations on his lawsuit expired three years ago. In his lawsuit, Councilman John O. Robertson said the city owed him the money because he had to pay that amount to a multi-city consortium he helped administer while serving on the council.

In a lackluster ending to one of this country's last attempts to prosecute World War II criminals, Germany's highest criminal court ruled Wednesday that a former Nazi officer responsible for the 1943 massacre of 15 Italian civilians could not, for technical reasons, be punished.

Miranda Meza's biggest fear about going to the police was that the man she says molested her would lie. If he said he never touched her, how could she prove he did? But he'd made that part easy. He admitted to police that he had. Now they were both here, in the courthouse. She watched her grandfather across the lobby. He was nearly 80 years old, his hair white and sparse. He wore an oxygen tank strapped across his skinny chest. It had taken more than 16 years to get to this point.

The FBI said Thursday that no federal charges would be filed in the 1955 killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a case that helped galvanize the civil rights movement. The investigation had been reopened and Till's body was exhumed for autopsy in June. But FBI agent John G. Raucci said in a statement that the five-year statute of limitations on federal civil rights violations expired. The FBI gave its long-awaited report to a Mississippi district attorney, Joyce L.