Mark Wayne v. Tennessee Valley Authority

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs appeal from a summary judgment entered in the Northern District of Mississippi holding that their claims are barred by the Tennessee statute of limitations applicable to product liability actions, Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 29-28-103 et seq. (1980). The Tennessee statute is a statute of repose which imposes an absolute bar to actions brought more than ten years after the allegedly defective product was purchased. Appellants seek to have a federal statute of limitations, 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b), or a Mississippi statute of limitations, either Miss. Code Ann. §…