RE: "Cleaning Up the Burke"

[John Scanlon <riversleigh@outbackatisa.com.au>]

There is too a Statute of Limitations - I think, though I haven't seen it
personally; everybody's seen it on TV, standing there in New York harbour.
You can even walk up inside, apparently.
 
John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Norton [mailto:ptnorton@suscom-maine.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 8:13 AM
> To: Danvarner@aol.com; dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: "Cleaning Up the Burke"
> 
> >In the US  there is such a thing as the Statute of Limitations (I
> >understand you don't have  it in Canada). DV
> 
> There is no such thing as a US "Statute of Limitations" (the use of caps
> here bugs me as much as a reference to T. Rex might bug others on this
> list).  There are thousands of federal and state laws that place limits on
> the time frame in which each particular law can be enforced (aka "statutes
> of limitation"), and each depends on the court's determination of the
> factual circumstances that apply to each case. The Burke situation is
> enormously complicated legally, and the question is even more enormously
> complicated if someone tries to draw comparisons between enforcement
> actions
> against the Burke and other collectors.
> 
> PTN
>