IN RE TRAPP ET AL.

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• Celotex Corp. v. Copeland, 471 So. 2d 533 (Fla. 1985)
  …., 284 Md. 70, 394 A. 2d 299 (1978); Dalton v. Dow Chemical Co., 280 Minn. 147, 158 N.W. 2d 580 (1968); Elmore v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 673 S.W. 2d 434 (Mo.1984); McKee v. Johns-Manville Corp., 94 Misc.2d 327, 404 N.Y. S.2d 814 (1978), cert. denied, 456 U.S. 967, 102 S.Ct. 2226, 72 L.Ed.2d 840 (1982). See generally Special Report at 641-49; Comment, Coping with the Particularized Problems of Toxic Tort Litigation, 28 Vill. L.Rev. 1298, 1314-19 (1982-83). Accordingly, we approve the reasoning of the district…
• Celotex Corp. v. Carmella Meehan, 523 So. 2d 141 (Fla. 1988)
  …rd. Steinhardt v. Johns-Manville Corp., 54 N.Y.2d 1008, 430 N.E. 2d 1297, 446 N.Y.S.2d 244, amendment granted, 55 N.Y.2d 802, 432 N.E. 2d 139, 447 N.Y.S.2d 437 (1981), appeal dismissed, cert. denied, sub nom. Rosenberg v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp., 456 U.S. 967, 102 S.Ct. 2226, 72 L.Ed.2d 840 (1982). Under New York law when the district court ruled, a cause of action arose and accrued regardless of Meehan’s knowledge or discovery of the injury in the state of New York in 1944. Schmidt v. Merchants Despat…
• Carmella Meehan v. The Celotex Corp., 466 So. 2d 1100 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985)
  …hich the statute of limitations is to run from the date of [*1103] discovery or constructive discovery. N.Y.Civ. Prac.Law § 214-b (1983). In Steinhardt v. Johns-Manville Corp., 430 N.E. 2d 1297, 54 N.Y.2d 1008, 446 N.Y.S.2d 244 (1981), cert denied 456 U.S. 967, 102 S.Ct. 2226, 72 L.Ed.2d 840 (1982), the New York Court of Appeals, acknowledging the amendment, declined to judicially extend the discovery rule to deleterious substances other than Agent Orange, paradoxically stating "[w]e believe it to be inap…