John Q. Hammons Hotels, Inc. John Q. Hammons Hotels, L.P. v. Acorn Window Systems, Inc. Nabholz Construction Corporation

COLLOTON, Circuit Judge.

John Q. Hammons Hotels, Inc., and John Q. Hammons Hotels, L.P. (“Ham-mons”) appeal from the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment in favor of Acorn Window Systems (“Acorn”) and Na-bholz Construction Corporation (“Na-bholz”) based on Iowa’s statute of limitations. We affirm.

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This is a lawsuit for damages resulting from water infiltration at Hammons’s Collins Plaza Hotel in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Hammons alleges that window units designed, manufactured, and sold by Acorn’s predecessor-in-interest suffered a problem called thermal break shrinkage.

Thermal break…