United States Sixth Circuit

In a suit brought by past and present Wal-Mart employees and their spouses, claiming injuries caused by exposure to carbon monoxide gas in the enclosed freezer section of a Wal-Mart Distribution Center during a two-week period in late 2005, dismissal of a second group of plaintiffs' claims as time-barred is affirmed where: 1) new plaintiffs cite no authority permitting relation back to the filing date of the original plaintiffs' claims under these circumstances; and 2) the district court did not err in holding that Kentucky's "discovery rule" did not apply to toll the statute of limitations.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/15/2010
• Decided 03/03/2010
• Published 03/03/2010

Judges

• Before KENNEDY, COLE, and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Elizabeth K. Russo, Russo Appellate Firm, P.A., Miami, Florida, for Appellants. Todd S. Page, Stoll KeenonOgden PLLC, Lexington, Kentucky, Douglas W. Langdon, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:Elizabeth K. Russo, Russo Appellate Firm, P.A., Miami, Florida, for Appellants. Todd S. Page, Stoll KeenonOgden PLLC, Lexington, Kentucky, Douglas W. Langdon, Charles S. Cassis, Susan Simpson Wettle, Frost Brown Todd LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellees.