Legal Opinion
Rogers v. Corrosion Products, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 12, 1995No. 94-30229PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Ronald Rogers (“Rogers”) appeals the district court’s dismissal of his diversity-based delictual action against Corrosion Products, Inc. (“CPI”), on statute of limitations grounds. He argues that the prescriptive period was suspended, either under Louisiana law or the Bankruptcy Code, when CPI was placed involuntarily into chapter VII bankruptcy. Concluding that this event did not stop the running of the prescriptive period, we affirm.
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Rogers, a worker for Chevron, allegedly was injured when working at a CPI facility in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, on June 20, 1991.…
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