Legal Opinion
Sentry Corporation and Sne Corporation v. Ethel R. Harris, as Trustee Under Trust Agreement Dated March 1, 1973
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 12, 1986No. 85-2824PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is yet another in a long line of cases in which the courts have sought with enormous difficulty to unravel the complexities created by Congress’ failure to provide statutes of limitations to govern all federal causes of action. In this case the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the district court dismissing their federal securities claim as barred by the applicable state statute of limitations. The district judge held that when a federal court borrows a state statute of limitations to apply to a federal cause of action it must also borrow those provisions…
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