News updates about statute of limitations

Florida House poised to end wrongful death statute of limitations (The Palm Beach Post)
Florida House poised to end wrongful death statute of limitations

Bill: No Statute Of Limitations In Child Sex Abuse Cases (Hartford Courant)
Attorneys and advocates on Wednesday called for lawmakers to make Connecticut the fourth state in the nation to eliminate the civil statute of limitations in child sexual abuse cases.

Florida House poised to end wrongful death statute of limitations (Sun-Sentinel)
Coral Springs man’s death prompted family’s push to change law Jeffrey Klee's mother and sister made a visit this week to the canal where his remains were found, just off Riverside Park in Coral Springs.

Victims: Change Statute Of Limitations (Eyewitness News 3 Hartford)
People who claim they are victims of sexual abuse and members of the Archdiocese from across the state headed to the state Capitol on Wednesday.

Chancellor Merkel condemns abuse scandal in Germany, suggests extending statute of limitations (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel called the sex abuse scandal rocking the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI a major challenge to German society and warned the only way to come to terms with it was to "find out everything that has happened."

Vatican to Drop Statute of Limitations for Pedophile Priests (Bloomberg)
March 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Vatican’s chief prosecutor will remove the statute of limitations for priests accused of child molestation and said today it was “false and calumnious” to accuse Pope Benedict XVI of a cover-up.

AP Interview: Agassi drug inquiries dropped (AP via Yahoo! Sports)
Tennis officials have closed the book on Andre Agassi's drug revelations. International Tennis Federation president Francesco Ricci Bitti told The Associated Press on Wednesday that despite appeals from the World Anti-Doping Agency, the statute of limitations in the case expired long ago and no retroactive punishment was possible.

Bill OK'd to end capital-crime statute of limitations (The Japan Times)
The government approved a bill Friday to abolish the statute of limitations on murder cases subject to the gallows. The revision to the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Penal Code will be submitted to the current Diet session. The measure is expected to be enacted because the Liberal Democratic Party, the main opposition force, is unlikely to oppose the bill, which is based on the findings of ...

Sex Abuse Victim Wants More Time (NBC Connecticut)
A bill to remove the statute of limitations for sex abuse cases was the subject of a hearing Wednesday in Hartford.

Andre Agassi Drug Inquiries Dropped (New England Sports Network)
ROME -- Tennis officials have closed the book on Andre Agassi's drug revelations. International Tennis Federation president Francesco Ricci Bitti told The Associated Press on Wednesday that despite appeals from the World Anti-Doping Agency, the statute of limitations in the case expired long ago and no retroactive punishment was possible. In Agassi's recently published autobiography, Open, he ...