Legal Opinion
Janet E. Pitts v. Unarco Industries, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 28, 1983No. 82-2071PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Chief Judge.
The principal issues in this appeal are whether plaintiff was denied a fair opportunity to oppose defendants’ motions for summary judgment and whether an unaccrued cause of action for wrongful death is a species of property protected by the Fourteenth Amendment and abrogated by the applicability of a ten-year Indiana statute of limitations.
Some 20 months following the death of her husband from lung disease, plaintiff, a resident of Indiana, commenced this wrongful death diversity action against 16 corporations, all residents of other states. Plaintiff alleged that each…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Buckley v. ValeoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. MarionSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1982
- United States v. KubrickSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
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3Cited by37 opinions
- Arnold G. Barwick v. The Celotex Corporation, Keene Corporation, Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, H.K. Porter, Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1984
- Margaret E. Coffey v. Van Dorn Iron Works, an Ohio CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
- St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. v. Getty Oil Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1989
- Lillicrap v. MartinSupreme Court of Vermont · 1991
- Cleremont L. Covalt and Ahnighita M. Covalt v. Carey Canada Inc. And Union Carbide CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1988
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