Legal Opinion
Kingvision Pay-Per-View, Corp., Ltd. v. 898 Belmont, Inc., D/B/A El Toro Bar Berhanu Degife
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 27, 2004No. 02-1770PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROTH, Circuit Judge.
Once again, we must determine what statute of limitations to apply when a federal statute does not specify a limitations period. In this case, involving the Federal Communications Act (FCA), KingVision claims that defendants exhibited a closed circuit telecast through the use of an illegal decoding device. The District Court applied the two year limitations period of the Pennsylvania cable piracy statute instead of the three year limitations period of the Copyright Act. We hold that the two year state limitations period does apply to KingVision’s FCA claims because the…
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