Legal Opinion
Crespo v. Stapf
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 25, 1992PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
POLLOCK, J.
This appeal poses the question whether the tolling provisions of N.J.S.A. 2A:14-22 before the amendment effective January 16, 1992, A. 1991, c. 387, violated the Commerce Clause as applied to individual nonresident defendants. Before the 1992 amendment, the statute tolled the limitations period against a nonresident defendant during the time the defendant was not residing in this state. The Law Division held that the statute imposed an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce and granted summary judgment dismissing the complaint of…
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