United States Supreme Court

In an action in which plaintiffs brought suit against defendant alleging damages from stored contaminants on land that defendant had sold twenty-four years prior, defendant was entitled to dismissal of the suit, where: 1) the action was subject to a state statute of repose that prevented subjecting a defendant to a tort suit brought more than 10 years after the defendant's last culpable act; and 2) 42 U.S.C. section 9658, which preempts statutes of limitations applicable to state-law tort actions in certain circumstances, does not preempt the state statute of repose here because, 42 U. S. C. section 9658 preempts only statutes of limitation and not statutes of repose.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2014
• Published 06/09/2014

Judges

• KENNEDY

Court

• United States Supreme Court

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