Legal Opinion
Korwek v. Hunt
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 26, 1987No. 1125, Docket 87-7160PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALTIMARI, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves the interplay between the filing of class action suits and the rules for tolling statutes of limitations, and contraposes two time-tested and fundamental policies: the policy favoring the rigid application of statutes of repose and the policy disfavoring the dilution of the potent procedural device established by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23.
The events relevant to this appeal began on March 4, 1982, with the filing of a class action suit seeking damages for losses suffered as a result of an alleged conspiratorial manipulation of the silver…
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