The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed a district court’s decision to dismiss claims under the Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices Act (LUTPA), finding that a dispute against a ...

THE strategy by an expensive law firm to dismiss a prominent personality’s cyber libel conviction on the claim that the prescriptive period — the period up to when a legal action may be filed or ...

Adverse possession and prescriptive easements are legal doctrines which allows a neighbor to acquire a legal right to own or use part of their neighbor’s land even without a written agreement. If a ...

The SC also affirms that prescription starts upon the discovery of the offense, not when the libelous post was published MANILA, Philippines – With a vote of 8-7, the Supreme Court (SC) ruled that the ...

Historically, Louisiana had maintained one of the country’s shortest statutes of limitation (known in the Bayou State as “prescriptive periods): for tort claims. Prior to recent legislative changes, ...

The Supreme Court affirmed its ruling that cyber libel prescribes one year from the time it is discovered. The resolution, written by Associate Justice Henri Jean Paul B. Inting, was made as the SC En ...

THE Supreme Court (SC) has affirmed its 2023 which declared that the crime of cyber libel prescribes in one year from the time it is discovered by the offended party. In its 29-page resolution written ...