HOPKINS v. KELSEY-HAYES, INC.

Nos. 79-1881, 79-2406 and 79-2605.

628 F.2d 801 (1980)

Roy HOPKINS, Appellee, v. KELSEY-HAYES, INC., Appellant. Susan COHN and Walter Cohn, her husband, Appellants in No. 79-2406, Cross-Appellee in No. 79-2605, v. G. D. SEARLE & COMPANY, Appellee in No. 79-2406, Cross-Appellant in No. 79-2605.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided July 23, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Apell, Howard & Mathews, J. Llewellyn Mathews (Argued), Browns Mills, N. J., for appellee in No. 79-1881.

Shanley & Fisher, Raymond M. Tierney, Jr. (Argued), Abbott S. Brown, Newark, N. J., for appellee, cross-appellant in No. 79-2406 and 2605.

Rawle & Henderson, Lowell A. Reed, Jr. (Argued), Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant in No. 79-1881.

Walter R. Cohn (Argued), Elaine Harris, South Orange, N. J., for appellants in Nos. 79-2406 and 2605.

Before ADAMS, GARTH and VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GARTH, Circuit Judge.

These appeals1 present us with constitutional challenges to a New Jersey statute, N.J.S.A. § 2A:14-22, which tolls the statute of limitations in actions against foreign corporations which are not represented in New Jersey, but which may nonetheless be amenable to New Jersey's long-arm jurisdiction. By contrast, foreign corporations which are represented in New Jersey receive the...

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