Altoona Area School District v. Campbell

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• “[S]tatutes of repose are substantive in nature because they extinguish a cause of action and preclude its revival.”
• school district construction contract for library was subject to statute of limitations because school district was not required to build libraries
• explaining that because a statute includes statute oflimitations and not statute of repose, the claim is subject to discovery rule
• “[SJection 5536 is couched in the language of a statute of repose, rather than a statute of limitation, because it contains words describing a definitely established event which commences the statutorily determined period of 12 years....”
• “[S]tatutes of repose run for a statutorily determined period of time after a definitely established event which commences the statutorily determined period of 12 years; that event is described in section 5536 as ‘completion of construction of such improvement.’”

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