Legal Opinion
In Re: TMI
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 18, 1996No. 94-7598UnknownCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SCIRICA, Circuit Judge.
In the wake of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979, more than two thousand individuals brought suit for personal injuries. The forty-two plaintiffs in this appeal missed Pennsylvania’s two year limitations date,' and filed suit in Mississippi in order to fall within that state’s six year statute of limitations. These plaintiffs now challenge the retroactive application of the choice of law provision of the Price-Anderson Amendments Act of 1988, Pub.L. No. 100-408, 102 Stat. 1066. Retroactive application of the choice of law provision would…
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