United States Sixth Circuit

Plaintiffs' suit, claiming that they have been harmed through exposure to radioactive substances over the period when nuclear weapons were manufactured near their homes, is dismissed as untimely where their claims are barred by Tennessee's one-year statute of limitations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/27/2004
• Decided 09/30/2004
• Published 09/30/2004

Judges

• Before GUY and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  BARZILAY, Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George E. Barrett (briefed), Edmund L. Carey, Jr. (argued and briefed), Barrett, Johnston & Parsley, Nashville, TN, for Plaintiff-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• E.H. Rayson (briefed), Thomas M. Hale (briefed), Kramer, Rayson, Leake, Rodgers & Morgan, Knoxville, TN, Kevin T. Van Wart (briefed), Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, Christopher Landau (argued and briefed), Susan E. Kearns, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, John T. Buckingham, Assistant United States Attorney (argued and briefed) U.S. Attorneys Office, Knoxville, TN, for Defendants-Appellees.