In most instances, civil suits must be filed within two years after the complainant learns of the problem.

Normally a claim has to be filed within just three years.

To get a refund, a taxpayer must file an amended return within three years of the original filing.

In courts elsewhere, only 4 percent of bankruptcy survivors filed again within five years.

The company had to file for bankruptcy within three years.

Another, he said, is that those who file are effectively barred from filing another bankruptcy within six years.

In others, people can file within two years of finding the abuse has damaged their lives.

Oregon law permits suits to be filed within two years of the time investors discover the reported fraud.

That law says that suits must be filed within three years after a person's medical problems appear.

Texas law permits such suits to be filed within four years, but the suit was dismissed following the Court decision several months later.