Legal Opinion
State v. LG Electronics, Inc.
Washington Supreme Court
Decided July 14, 2016No. 91263-7PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
González, J.
¶1 Plaintiffs must file their lawsuits before the applicable statute of limitations runs or their suits will be dismissed as untimely. Historically, sovereigns were not subject to statutes of limitations without their explicit consent. Washington State has consented to some statutes of limitations but not to others. We are asked to decide whether our State has consented to a statute of limitations that would bar this antitrust suit filed by the Washington State attorney general on behalf of the State against more than 20 foreign electronics manufacturing companies. We find it has…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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