Legal Opinion
Schach v. Ford Motor Co.
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 3, 2002No. Civ.A. No. 3:01-CV-798PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
*523 MEMORANDUM
CAPUTO, District Judge.
This action arises from an auto accident involving the Plaintiff.1 Defendant Bridge-stone/Firestone North American Tire, LLC (“Bridgestone/Firestone”) now moves to dismiss Plaintiff Shirley Schach’s product liability action as time-barred. (Doc. 22.) Because Plaintiff failed to file her amended complaint in a timely manner as prescribed by Pennsylvania law, and because neither the relation-back doctrine nor the discovery rule excuses her lateness, I will grant Bridge-stone/Firestone’s motion to dismiss.
Plaintiff commenced this diversity action on May 7, 2001,…
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