Reynoldsville Casket Co. v. Hyde

In Bendix Autolite Corp. v. Midwesco Enterprises, Inc., 486 U. S. 888 (1988), this Court held unconstitutional (as impermissibly burdening interstate commerce) an Ohio “tolling” provision that, in effect, gave Ohio tort plaintiffs unlimited time to sue out-of-state (but not in-state) defendants. Subsequently, in the case before us, the Supreme Court of *751Ohio held that, despite Bendix, Ohio’s tolling law continues to apply to tort claims that accrued before that decision. This holding, in our view, violates the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause. We therefore reverse the Ohio Supreme Court’s…