REYNOLDSVILLE CASKET CO. v. HYDE

No. 94-3.

514 U.S. 749 (1995)

REYNOLDSVILLE CASKET CO. et al. v. HYDE

United States Supreme Court.

Decided May 15, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Riedel argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioners.

Timothy B. Dyk argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was David J. Eardley.*

Breyer, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Stevens, Scalia, Souter, Thomas, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. Scalia, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Thomas, J., joined, p. 759. Kennedy, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, in which O'Connor, J., joined, p. 761.


Justice Breyer, delivered the opinion of the Court.

In Bendix Autolite Corp. v. Midwesco Enterprises, Inc., 486 U.S. 888 (1988), this Court held unconstitutional (as impermissibly burdening interstate commerce) an Ohio "tolling" provision that, in effect, gave Ohio tort plaintiffs unlimited time to sue out-of-state (but not in-state) defendants. Subsequently, in the case before us, the Supreme Court of

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