Lexology June 5, 2024
(The Butler Snow members of the DDL blog had nothing to do with today’s post.)
Intricate issues of New York law have been in the news lately — but that has been about criminal law. By contrast, New York’s application of the statute of limitations in civil tort cases did not surface on CNN, Fox, or MSNBC last week. For that matter, this blog would not ordinarily discuss a court’s interpretation of the statute of limitations. Such interpretations are usually pedestrian and fact-driven.
But today’s decision, In re Ethicon Physiomesh Flexible Composite Hernia Mesh Products Liability Litigation, 2924 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 93722 (N.D. Ga. April 9, 2024), in which the court granted summary judgment on statute of limitations grounds, hits...