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BUCKLEY v. AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR CO., INC.

No. 85-1346.

780 F.2d 1 (1985)

Lucy J. BUCKLEY, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. AMERICAN HONDA MOTOR COMPANY, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert V. Lizza with whom Stephen A. Hopkins and Sherburne, Powers & Needham, Boston, Mass., were on brief for plaintiff, appellant.

Peter M. Durney with whom Cornell & Gollub, Boston, Mass., was on brief for defendant, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Circuit Judge and CEREZO, District Judge.

CEREZO, District Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the judgment dismissing her products liability suit as time barred. Applying Massachusetts' three-year statute of limitations period for this type of case, Mass. G.L. c. 260, sec. 2A and c. 106, sec. 2-318, and that state's particular criteria of accrual for inherently unknowable wrongs, see Fidler v. Eastman Kodak Co., 714 F.2d 192, 196-99 (1st Cir.1983), the district court concluded...

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