Editing Statute of limitations (section)

====={{anchor|Continuing violations doctrine}}Continuing-violations doctrine=====
In [[tort]] law, if any person or entity commits a series of illegal acts against another person or entity (or in criminal law if a defendant commits a continuing crime) the limitation period may begin to run from the last act in the series.<ref>{{cite web |title=Continuing Violation Doctrine Law and Legal Definition |url=https://definitions.uslegal.com/c/continuing-violation-doctrine/ |access-date=24 January 2019 |publisher=definitions.uslegal.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cite.case.law/f3d/366/238/#p246 |title=Egervary v. Young, 366 F.3d 238 |page=246 |date=April 30, 2004 |work=U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |publisher=Harvard Law School |quote=Traditionally, in tort law, 'proximate cause' has been defined as a person's wrongful conduct which is a substantial factor in bringing about harm to another.}}</ref> The entire [[chain of events]] can be tolled if the violations were continuing. Courts have explained that the continuing-violations doctrine "tolls the statute of limitations in situations where a continuing pattern forms due to [[discrimination|discriminatory]] acts which have been occurring over a period of time, as long as at least one incident of discrimination occurred within the limitations period."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cite.case.law/f3d/200/570/#p573 |title=Treanor v. MCI Telecommunications Corp., 200 F.3d 570 |page=573 |date=January 7, 2000 |work=U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit |publisher=Harvard Law School}}</ref> Whether the continuing-violations doctrine applies to a particular violation is subject to judicial discretion; it was said to apply to [[copyright infringement]] in the jurisdiction of the Seventh Circuit,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cite.case.law/f2d/712/1112/#p1119 |title=Taylor v. Meirick, 712 F.2d 1112 |page=573 |date=July 7, 1983 |work=U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit |publisher=Harvard Law School}}</ref> but not in the jurisdiction of the Second Circuit.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cite.case.law/f2d/970/1043/#p1049 |title=Stone v. Williams, 970 F.2d 1043 |pages=1049–50 |date=July 13, 1992 |work=U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |publisher=Harvard Law School}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://gonzagalawreview.org/files/2011/02/Graham.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=13 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118075119/http://gonzagalawreview.org/files/2011/02/Graham.pdf |archive-date=18 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>