Questão jurídica principal
Whether the damage action under Art. 52 LPP was prescribed when filed on 2007-08-24.
Decisão extraída
The action was not prescribed.
Fundamentação extraída
The ten-year absolute period under Art. 52(2) LPP began with the end of the harmful conduct and had not expired. The five-year relative period could not be counted retroactively from the old law, because its starting point is knowledge of the damage and liable person, which was not a legally recognized trigger under the former regime; therefore it began only with the new law on 2005-01-01.