Costar Group, Inc. v. Leon Capital Group, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that criminal contempt is an offense against the United States for purposes of the general statute of limitations for noncapital offenses
• rejecting the argument that an in-court contempt fell within the statute of limitations because the misrepresentation of material facts had a continuing fraudulent effect and reflected a continuous fraudulent intent
• “Certainly the power to punish contempts in the ‘presence’ of the court, like the power to punish contempts for wilful violations of the court’s decrees ‘must have some limit in time.’ ”
• “Every statute of limitations, of course, may permit a rogue to es- cape.”
• “statutes of limitations normally begin to run when the crime is complete”
• “Statute of limitations normally begin to run when the crime is complete.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).